Culture-negative peritonitis is a major complication for patients on continuous ambulatory
peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) and precludes organism-specific therapy. The aim of the present …

purpose: Bacteriuria is common among institutionalized elderly populations, but the
contribution of urinary infection to febrile morbidity is unknown because of difficulties in clinical …

Species of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from urine specimens submitted from
both inpatients and outpatients to the clinical microbiology laboratory of a teaching hospital …

Thirty women were randomized in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study to receive either
norfloxacin, 200 mg orally daily at bedtime, or placebo for the prevention of recurrent …

The pharmacokinetics of the extended-half-life, broad-spectrum oral cephalosporin cefixime
(CL 284,635; FK 027) were studied in 7 healthy volunteers and 35 patients with various …

Pseudomonas cepacia has become a prominent epidemic nosocomial pathogen over the
past 15 years. Between December 1982 and September 1983 it was isolated from 29 patients …

We determined the validity of using external devices for urine specimen collection from 24
elderly incontinent men residing in a nursing home by collecting three sequential specimens, …

Thirty patients with antimicrobial agent-associated pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) were
studied for the presence of Clostridium difficile and its cytotoxin in feces. Either colonoscopy …

We characterized the aerobic and anaerobic urethral flora of five healthy females by performing
urethral and midstream urine cultures once weekly for 8 weeks. Aerobic cultures were …

The efficacy of lomefloxacin given at 400 mg once daily for 14 days compared with that of
trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole at 160 and 800 mg, respectively, given twice daily for 14 days …