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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510046

Three Novel Acinetobacter baumannii Plasmid Replicase-Homology Groups Inferred from the Analysis of a Multidrug-Resistant Clinical Strain Isolated in Argentina

María M Cameranesi, Adriana S Limansky, Jorgelina Moran-Barrio, Guillermo D Repizo and Alejandro M Viale

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: December 06, 2017

Acinetobacter baumannii is an important opportunistic pathogen responsible for a variety of nosocomial infections. Its success in the hospital environment obeys to multiple causes, among them, the ability to resist antimicrobial compounds. It can rapidly evolve Multidrug Resistance (MDR) when confronted with antibiotic therapy....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510045

Quality of Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis in a Community Hospital in Western Qatar

H Guanche Garcell, Ariadna Villanueva Arias and RA Nonato Alfonso

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: November 25, 2017

Descriptive study was carried out in a 75-bed public hospital in Western Qatar. The study included the patients underwent selected procedures who required antibiotic prophylaxis from Jan-2013 to June 2016. Data was collected by the infection control practitioner....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510044

Risk of Severe Influenza Infection: Hypercytokinemia Gene Polymorphisms and Related Plasma Proteome in Canadian Young Adults

Sirbarinder Bryn Dhir, Ahmed El-Sohemy and Alaa Badawi

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: November 13, 2017

Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes influencing hypercytokinemia have been implicated in the clinical manifestations of severe influenza infection. Genotype-phenotype studies in healthy subjects may help to identify biomarkers of early prediction for severe disease outcome....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510043

Applied Medical Mathematical Modelling Technique for Epidemiology Approach for New Emerging Infection

Viroj Wiwanitkit

Article Type: editorial | First Published: November 08, 2017

Infection is the common pathology in medicine. The new emerging infection is the present problem worldwide. Within the past few years, there are several new emerging infections. The diseases are usually problematic and need good management and control....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510042

Cerebral Aspergillosis in a Patient with p-ANCA Vasculitis: Serial Imaging Observation over 15 Months

Mei Chen Chen, Che Kim Tan and Wen Liang Yu

Article Type: letter to the editor | First Published: November 06, 2017

Aspergillosis is well known in a patient with perinuclear Antineutrophilic Cytoplasmic Antibody (p-ANCA)-associated vasculitis and pulmonary renal syndromes....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3658/1510041

Cytomegalovirus Pneumonia Rather Than Pneumocystis Pneumonia in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Contributor or Bystander?

Hsin-Ju Tang and Wen-Liang Yu

Article Type: Editor | First Published: October 26, 2017

This is a 45-year-old man, who has been working in China for several years and denied any systemic diseases before. He has suffered from the right axillary mass for 3 weeks, which was film and associated with mild tenderness. He was admitted to the Hematology department of the hospital on May 1, 2017. The Computed Tomography (CT) scan from neck to the chest showed a large enhancing mass over right axillary area, favoring lymphoma or metastatic lymphadenopathy....

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