The prevalence of resistance of P aeruginosa strains to the nine antimicrobials tested was relatively low among hospital strains. Strains from community sources were fully sensitive to four of the nine drugs. No local or regional data could be found in the literature to which resistance rates among P aeruginosa could be compared. However, increasing [...]
From 650 cultures that were received from participating centers, 554 (85.2%) were recovered on subculture and subsequently confirmed as P aeruginosa. All of the 554 isolates that were confirmed as P aeruginosa produced pyocyanin. Ninety-six of 554 (17.3%) of the isolates were recovered from the ICU, and 10.1% (56/554) from the nursery. Other inpatients services [...]
INTRODUCTION Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous organism frequently isolated from clinical specimens. Because these organisms are usually inherently resistant to many antimicrobial agents, treatment of pseudomonal infections is usually difficult, and mortality is usually high. This intrinsic resistance is mainly a result of the diffusion barrier of the bacterial outer membrane; amino-acid substitution in the [...]
Multiple risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease in subjects with diabetes, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and microalbuminuria, which are the key components of MS. They have a risk of death from cardiovascular causes that is two- to six times that among persons without diabetes. Among white Americans, the age-adjusted prevalence of coronary heart disease [...]
A total of 218 subjects with type-2 diabetes were studied. The mean age of all the patients was 52 ± 5.8 years (range 36-62 years), consisting of 128 (58.7%) males and 90 (41.3%) females. The mean duration of disease was 8.5 ±7.1 years. The mean fasting blood glucose and two-hour postprandial blood glucose levels in [...]
A total of 218 subsamples of consecutive patients with type-2 diabetes seen between September 1999 and August 2001, in both the medical outpatient department and the medical wards of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria were studied.
INTRODUCTION The clustering of cardiovascular disease risk components found in persons with abnormal glucose tolerance (impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes mellitus) has been labeled variously as Syndrome X, the Insulin Resistance Syndrome, the Deadly Quartet, or metabolic syndrome (MS). The World Health Organization (WHO), has defined the syndrome to include a combination of impaired glucose [...]
