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Infections12
  • Endocarditis is other infections. (cdc.gov)
  • On Invasive staphylococcal infections. (lu.se)
  • As such, patients with serious staphylococcal infections should be initially started on agents active against MRSA until susceptibility results are available. (medscape.com)
  • [ 52 ] .The results of such testing are often delayed .Because of these drawbacks and the availability of less nephrotoxic and more effective alternatives , vancomycin has a very limited role in treating staphylococcal infections. (medscape.com)
  • it typically causes skin infections and sometimes pneumonia, endocarditis, and osteomyelitis. (merckmanuals.com)
  • Vancomycin Hydrochloride is effective in the treatment of staphylococcal endocarditis, septicemia, bone infections, lower respiratory tract infections, and skin and skin-structure infections. (fda.gov)
  • Abstract Cephalexin remains an effective and highly useful antibiotic for the treatment of streptococcal and staphylococcal skin infections. (seagullindia.com)
  • Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart including infections of the large thoracic vessels and intracardiac foreign bodies characterized by the presence of vegetation which is a nidus for microorganism invasion. (mims.com)
  • Staphylococcal disease ranges from minor skin infections to life-threatening conditions, such as endocarditis and sepsis. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • He is editor for the Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy and he has over 250 publications and textbook chapters in the areas of drug resistance, endocarditis, bacterial infections, and staphylococcal diseases. (eventscribe.net)
  • His clinical and research interests are antimicrobial drug resistance, staphylococcal infections, experimental therapeutics, and epidemiology and pathogenesis of disease caused by community methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (eventscribe.net)
  • That year, the cost of this antibiotic amounted US antibiotic for Gram-positive bacterial infections, soft $162,312.0 a figure that represented 3.6% of the total tissue infections, endocarditis, and bacterial bacteremia pharmaceutical expenditure of the INTO. (bvsalud.org)
Bacteremia5
Prosthetic4
  • Is Rifampin Use Associated With Better Outcome in Staphylococcal Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis? (bvsalud.org)
  • Prosthetic valve endocarditis is an endovascular microbial infection of prosthetic heart valves and may be classified as an infection likely to have been acquired perioperatively and thus being nosocomial or likely to have been community-acquired. (mims.com)
  • See PROSTHETIC VALVE endocarditis for PVIE regimens. (hopkinsguides.com)
  • According to scientific documents, CoNS cause half of all cases of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis (PVE) 10 . (ajmb.org)
Infection9
  • Endocarditis is a noncontagious chronic infection of gave a comprehensive account of the disease and outlined the valves or lining of the heart, mainly caused by the difficulties in its diagnosis (2). (cdc.gov)
  • May use to initiate therapy when staphylococcal infection is suggested. (medscape.com)
  • Infective endocarditis (IE) is defined as an infection of the endocardial surface of the heart (see the image below), which may include one or more heart valves, the mural endocardium, or a septal defect. (medscape.com)
  • Foci of infection in the oral cavity arising from chronic periodontitis or chronic periapical abscesses (ie, inflammation and abscess of the tissue attached to the apex of the root) may lead to subacute bacterial endocarditis (BE) and glomerulonephritis (GN). (medscape.com)
  • With AGN associated with staphylococcal infection, in contrast, the patient is likely to be a middle-aged or older man, often with diabetes mellitus. (medscape.com)
  • [ 2 ] The onset of glomerulonephritis may be concomitant with the infection, which may be a visceral infection (eg, pneumonia, endocarditis, osteomyelitis) or a skin infection, possibly from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . (medscape.com)
  • Native valve endocarditis is an endovascular microbial infection of native heart valves that may be local including valvular and perivalvular destruction or distal due to detachment of septic vegetations with embolism, metastatic infection and septicemia. (mims.com)
  • The central hypothesis is that staphylococcal infection of phagocytes causes a distinct change in the transcriptional profile of these host immune cells, which promotes the creation of a favourable environment for phagocyte parasitism by S. aureus . (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • Each year, around 500,000 hospital patients in the United States contract a staphylococcal infection, chiefly by S. aureus . (mdwiki.org)
Pneumonia4
  • Spontaneous tension pneumopericardium complicating staphylococcal pneumonia. (lookfordiagnosis.com)
  • The authors describe a patient with spontaneous pneumopericardium complicating staphylococcal pneumonia and empyema that resulted in cardiac tamponade . (lookfordiagnosis.com)
  • Primary staphylococcal pneumonia complicated with toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is relatively uncommon in children. (lookfordiagnosis.com)
  • We describe a 7-year-old child with TSS resulting from staphylococcal pneumonia. (lookfordiagnosis.com)
Aureus9
Infective Endocarditis Due2
Valve7
Coagulase-negative staphylococcal species2
  • Unlike most coagulase-negative staphylococcal species, S. lugdunensis often remains sensitive to penicillinase-resistant beta-lactam antibiotics (ie, methicillin-sensitive). (merckmanuals.com)
  • Below is a list of common coagulase-negative staphylococcal species and their preferred sites of colonisation. (dermnetnz.org)
Diagnosis4
Sepsis1
Valvular endocarditis2
Subacute1
Patients8
  • No special diets are recommended for patients with endocarditis. (medscape.com)
  • Two patients with staphylococcal endocarditis were treated unsuccessfully with cefazolin sodium. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The original concept of antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis (IE) led to the recommendation for antimicrobial agents in a large number of patients with predisposing cardiac conditions who were undergoing a wide range of procedures. (springer.com)
  • 10. Huminer D., Bishara J., Pitlic S. Home intravenous antibiotic therapy for patients with infective endocarditis. (cmac-journal.ru)
  • Physicians need to use additional parameters when treating patients with staphylococcal endocarditis. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To date, bactericidal activity has been regarded as a desirable characteristic in antimicrobial agents when treating patients with endocarditis, while, routine MBC testing is not recommended because of the technical difficulties associated with these tests [ 11 - 15 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Short-course therapy (2 wks) with IV abx may be possible for some patients with uncomplicated TV endocarditis (see below). (hopkinsguides.com)
  • Available literature does not suggest a mortality difference between IDU and non-IDU patients with endocarditis [5] . (hopkinsguides.com)
Intravenous1
  • In the alcohol consumption, and the use of intravenous self- early years of the new millennium, infective endocarditis administered illicit drugs may also predispose a suscepti- still proves to be difficult to diagnose and is associated ble person to an increased risk of acquiring endocarditis. (cdc.gov)
Penicillin1
  • Activity of penicillin combined with an aminoglycoside against group B streptococci in vitro and in experimental endocarditis. (cmac-journal.ru)
Streptococcal2
Mortality1
  • The mortality rate due to endocarditis caused by CoNS is reported to be about 36% 6 , while it is estimated at 30% for septic shock 12 . (ajmb.org)
Antimicrobial agents1
  • Tolerance has been described for anti-staphylococcal beta-lactams but involves also glycopeptide antimicrobial agents. (biomedcentral.com)
Native2
  • Infective Endocarditis: How Do We Currently Interpret the Duke Minor Criterion "Predisposing Heart Condition" in Native Valves? (springer.com)
  • For other pathogens on native valves, see the endocarditis module. (hopkinsguides.com)
Echocardiography1
Disease1
  • New evi- "bacterial endocarditis" and subsequently to "infective dence is growing that changes in social behavior, such as endocarditis" after the observation that microbiologic an increase in the incidence of body piercing, excessive agents other than bacteria may cause the disease. (cdc.gov)
Diagnostic2
Streptococci1
  • Recent approaches to management of infective endocarditis including recognition, empirical treatment, and etiological therapy depending on causative agent (streptococci, staphylococci, gram-negative bacteria, fungi and unknown etiology) are given in the article. (cmac-journal.ru)
Treatment4
Right-sided1
Resistant1
Microbiological1
  • Survey of infective endocarditis in the last 10 years: analysis of clinical, microbiological and therapeutic features. (cmac-journal.ru)
Therapy2
  • Other studies report unsuccessful therapy of staphylococcal endocarditis with cefazolin. (elsevierpure.com)
  • 19. Rubinstein E., Carbon C. Staphylococcal endocarditis - recommendations for therapy. (cmac-journal.ru)