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Urinary Tract Infections Caused by Multi-Drug Resistant Proteus mirabilis: Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes
Proteus mirabilis (PM) as well as other membersof the Enterobacteriaceae family are a leading cause ofinfectious diseases in both the community and acute caresettings. The prevalence of multi-drug resistant (MDR)...
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Conservative Management of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator-Related Endocarditis Due to Bacillus spp.
Endocarditis is a devastating complication of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. Partial or complete device removal has been advocated for the treatment of this condition although controlled...
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Clonal variability of group B Streptococcus among different groups of carriers in southern Israel
A high prevalence of maternal group B Streptococcus (GBS) carriage and an extremely low incidence of invasive neonatal disease have been reported from southern Israel. In order to obtain insight into this discrep...
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Post-epidemic serosurvey of West Nile fever in Israel
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Nelfinavir-induced insulin resistance is associated with impaired plasma membrane recruitment of the PI 3-kinase effectors Akt/PKB and PKC-ζ
Chronic exposure of 3T3-L1 adipocytes to the HIV protease inhibitor nelfinavir induces insulin resistance, recapitulating key metabolic alterations of adipose tissue in the lipodystrophy syndrome induced by th...
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Infective Endocarditis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
Infective endocarditis due to anaerobic non-spore-forming gram-negative bacilli in intravenous drug abusers is exceedingly rare, with only two cases being previously reported in the literature. A case of endo...
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Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia in the adult cancer patient population of Southern Israel
To evaluate the efficacy of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) prophylaxis in preventing chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia in the heterogeneous population of adult cancer patients treated in...
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Enterococcus hirae septicemia in a patient with end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis
Enterococcus hirae, member of theEnterococcus genus known to cause infection in animals, is rarely encountered in clinical practice. There are no published reports describing clinical features ofEnterococcus hir...
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Pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia in 148 hospitalized adult patients
In a previous prospective study,Streptococcus pneumoniae was identified as the causative agent in 148 (42.8%) of 346 adult patients hospitalized over the course of one year with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)...
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Changing trends in frequency and antimicrobial resistance of urinary pathogens in outpatient clinics and a hospital in Southern Israel, 1991–1995
In order to monitor changes in the frequency and antimicrobial resistance of urinary pathogens over several years, urinary cultures received from outpatient clinics and from a hospital during a period of one m...
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Septic arthritis due to bacteroides fragilis after pilonidal sinus resection in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
Bacteroides fragilis is a rare cause of septic arthritis. Most patients with B.fragilis septic arthritis have a chronic joint disease, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, and sources of infection are lesions of...
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Microparticle agglutination versus antibody-capture enzyme immunoassay for diagnosis of community-acquiredMycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia
Community-acquiredMycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia is a common disease which is usually diagnosed by serological methods. The objective of the present study was to understand the diagnostic significance and test c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Plasma Fibronectin in Septic Critically Ill Patients
The last 10 years have been fruitful concerning experimental and clinical studies on plasma fibronectin (FN) levels in sepsis. Since the first report of Scovill et al. in 1978 [1], various investigations attem...
