21 Result(s)

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Gentamicin combination treatment is associated with lower mortality in patients with invasive listeriosis: a retrospective analysis

Listeria monocytogenes causes severe bacterial infections with the highest mortality rate among foodborne pathogens in Europe. Combination treatment with ampicillin and gentamicin is recommended for invasive mani...

Jan P. Sutter, Lorenz Kocheise, Jan Kempski, Martin Christner… in Infection (2024)

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High burden of RSV and influenza in patients presenting with suspected pneumonia in the emergency room of a German tertiary hospital in fall of 2022

Bacterial pneumonia, a major cause of respiratory tract infections (RTI), can be challenging to diagnose and to treat adequately, especially when seasonal viral pathogens co-circulate. The aim of this study wa...

Marlene Ettemeyer, Maria Florey, Konstantin Tanida, Johannes Jochum… in Infection (2023)

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Tecovirimat for the treatment of severe Mpox in Germany

In May 2022, a multi-national mpox outbreak was reported in several non-endemic countries. The only licensed treatment for mpox in the European Union is the orally available small molecule tecovirimat, which in O...

Lennart Hermanussen, Thomas Theo Brehm, Timo Wolf, Christoph Boesecke… in Infection (2023)

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Disseminated tuberculosis during TNF-α inhibitor therapy diagnosed by positron emission tomography and mini-laparoscopy

Lennart Hermanussen, Thomas Theo Brehm, Stefan Schmiedel in Infection (2023)

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Orthopox simiae muscle abscess

Thomas Theo Brehm, Lennart Hermanussen, Stefan Schmiedel in Infection (2023)

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Mini-laparoscopy as a diagnostic tool for abdominal tuberculosis: a retrospective series of 29 cases

Abdominal tuberculosis (TB) is a “great mimic,” and diagnosis remains challenging even for experienced clinicians. While mini-laparoscopy has already been demonstrated to be an efficient diagnostic tool for a ...

Thomas Theo Brehm, Natascha Ndzedzeka-Völz, Malte Wehmeyer… in Surgical Endoscopy (2023)

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Respiratory muscle dysfunction in long-COVID patients

Symptoms often persistent for more than 4 weeks after COVID-19—now commonly referred to as ‘Long COVID’. Independent of initial disease severity or pathological pulmonary functions tests, fatigue, exertional i...

Jan K. Hennigs, Marie Huwe, Annette Hennigs, Tim Oqueka, Marcel Simon… in Infection (2022)

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Diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis by mini-laparoscopy

Thomas Theo Brehm, Stefan Schmiedel, Ansgar W. Lohse in Infection (2022)

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Erratum zu: Imitation eines Felty-Syndroms durch eine viszerale Leishmaniasis bei rheumatoider Arthritis unter Therapie mit Methotrexat und Etanercept

Nikolas Ruffer, Nicola M. Tomas, Stefan Schmiedel… in Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie (2022)

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Wound infection with Vibrio harveyi following a traumatic leg amputation after a motorboat propeller injury in Mallorca, Spain: a case report and review of literature

Vibrio spp. are aquatic bacteria that are ubiquitous in warm estuarine and marine environments, of which 12 species are currently known to cause infections in humans. So far, only five human infections with V. ha...

Thomas Theo Brehm, Laura Berneking, Holger Rohde… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2020)

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Immediate versus deferred antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients presenting with acute AIDS-defining events (toxoplasmosis, Pneumocystis jirovecii-pneumonia): a prospective, randomized, open-label multicenter study (IDEAL-study)

To evaluate clinical outcomes after either immediate or deferred initiation of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1-infected patients, presenting late with pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) or toxoplasma encephalitis (TE).

Guido Schäfer, Christian Hoffmann, Keikawus Arasteh… in AIDS Research and Therapy (2019)

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Management der saisonalen Influenza 2017/2018: Erfahrungen an einem deutschen Universitätsklinikum

Es gibt nur wenige strukturierte klinische Erfahrungsberichte zum stationären Management einer saisonalen Influenzaepidemie.

Christian Kraef, Marc van der Meirschen… in Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforsch… (2019)

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German cohort of HCV mono-infected and HCV/HIV co-infected patients reveals relative under-treatment of co-infected patients

Current German and European HIV guidelines recommend early evaluation of HCV treatment in all HIV/HCV co-infected patients. However, there are still considerable barriers to initiate HCV therapy in everyday cl...

Claudia Beisel, Martin Heuer, Benjamin Otto, Johannes Jochum… in AIDS Research and Therapy (2014)

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Safety and efficacy of protease inhibitor based combination therapy in a single-center “real-life” cohort of 110 patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 infection

The combination of boceprevir or telaprevir with peginterferon-alfa and ribavirin for the treatment of patients infected with HCV genotype 1 has led to significantly increased rates of sustained virological re...

Malte H Wehmeyer, Friederike Eißing, Sabine Jordan, Claudia Röder… in BMC Gastroenterology (2014)

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Characterization of Enterobacter cloacae Pneumonia: A Single-Center Retrospective Analysis

Enterobacter cloacae (E. cloacae) is a Gram-negative rod commonly found on intensive care units (ICU) causing severe infections with high mortality. Specific characteristics of E. cloa...

Jan K. Hennigs, Hans Jörg Baumann, Stefan Schmiedel, Pierre Tennstedt… in Lung (2011)