Active clinical trials for "Infections"

A retrospective cohort of solid organ transplant (SOT) and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients will be assembled to determine the incidence of respiratory viral infections diagnosed during an inpatient admission in the first year post-transplant. A sub-cohort of patients that develop a respiratory viral infection within one year of transplantation will be leveraged to investigate factors associated with mortality in the three months after respiratory viral infection.

We are doing this research study to determine if taking vancomycin in addition to a broad-spectrum antibiotic will decrease the chance of developing recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

Between 2013-2014, our study network of U.S. emergency departments, EMERGEncy ID NET, found that the rate of fluoroquinolone-resistant E. coli was 11.7% among all patients, 6.3% in uncomplicated and 19.9% in complicated. ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae were found in 7.7% of all cases, 2.6% in uncomplicated and 12.2% in complicated. More recently, Enterobactericeae and gram-negative non fermenting bacteria have started to show resistance to carbapenems (CREs and CR-NF). Patients hospitalized with UTI and urosepsis represent a higher risk population for infections due to multi-drug resistant bacteria and experience serious adverse outcomes, including death. EMERGEncy ID NET will conduct a study to determine the prevalence of ESBL-producing, CREs and CR-NFs among this high risk population of patients admitted for UTI from U.S. emergency departments.

A prospective, randomized study will be performed. Patients are randomized using a 1:1 allocation into 2 groups: patients receiving a vitamin E-containing dressing (group 1) and a conventional dressing (group 2). The primary outcomes variable will be occurrence of incisional SSI. Follow-up will be 30 days postoperatively.

A preliminary study was conducted from 01/26/2015 to 10/26/2015 on 605 patients admitted to MIA with an intravenous and/or a urinary catheter. the investigators analyzed: the demographic characteristics of the patient the final diagnosis the patient's severity and the patient outcome after discharge from MIA the justification of the venous and or a urinary catheter the duration of the prescription of the device Evaluation on admission of the need to maintain an intravenous or urinary catheter. Adjusting the prescription in terms of duration or withdrawal of the device in order to limit their complications (lymphangitis, superficial thrombophlebitis, bacteremia related to health care, urinary tract infection). Hypothesis: Limit the length of stay and reduce the cost of hospitalization.

Evaluation of anti-CMV T cellular immunity using an IGRA test (Quantiferon-CMV test) in kidney transplant recipients and hemodialysis patients, comparison to control patients.

The purpose of this project is to validate the diagnostic orientation properties of two new biomarkers (CD64, CD169) for patients with infectious syndromes arriving in emergency departments. This prospective observational study will focus on the quantification of these biomarkers on a hematology tube background (Pr Morange laboratory) without modifying the usual diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The results of these assays will be compared with the diagnoses made at the end of treatment in order to determine their sensitivity and specificity. This study is the preliminary study, necessary to determine the detection characteristics of these biomarkers.

The malignant external otitis is a rare disease which arises more frequently at the elderly and the diabetics patients. To our knowledge, there are few data and it is not wellc known byclinicians. Nevertheless it exposes to neurological complications potentially serious and crippling.

Globally, about 248 million people are chronic HBV surface antigen carriers, and about 5% of them also had hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection as well. The prevalence of HBsAg in Egypt is intermediate (2-7%) . Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is an incomplete RNA virus that needs hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) to help its replication. HDV is considered a subviral particle because it depends on HBV for its propagation. Combined HDV- HBV infection produces more severe liver affection than HBV alone. HDV infection leads to both of acute and chronic liver illnesses. Acute HDV infection can occur at the same time with acute HBV infection (coinfection) or can be superimposed on the top of chronic HBV infection. About 20% to 30% of coinfections of HDV and HBV in humans develop fatal fulminant hepatitis versus 2% of patients with acute hepatitis B mono-infection. Worldwide, Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection present in more than 15 million people and it is endemic in the Middle East . In Upper Egypt, data about the prevalence, clinical, laboratory and virological characters of Hepatitis D virus-infected patients is rare. This study aims were: To estimate the prevalence of hepatitis D virus infection among HBsAg positive individuals. To determine the clinical, laboratory and virological characters of HDV infected patients.

Dual-focus with narrow-band imaging (DF-NBI) is a novel technique to improve the quality of images of the irregular mucosal structures and microvessels of gastric neoplasms. The investigators compare this technique with conventional white light (WL) endoscopy to predict Helicobacter pylori infection.