Antifungal treatment with echinocandins : a 10-year clinical experience RODRIGO POVES-ALVAREZ, BEATRIZ CANO-HERNÁNDEZ, SARA BALBÁS-ALVAREZ, PATRICIA ROMÁN-GARCÍA, MARÍA HEREDIA-RODRÍGUEZ, ESTHER GÓMEZ-SÁNCHEZ, ESTEFANÍA GÓMEZ-PESQUERA, MARIO LORENZO-LÓPEZ, BEATRIZ MARTÍNEZ-RAFAEL, MARÍA FE MUÑOZ-MORENO, JOSÉ MARÍA EIROS, EDUARDO TAMAYO Introduction. The number of studies evaluating the use of echinocandins, whether or not its indication meets international guidelines, in clinical […]

Febrile syndromes in the traveler returning from tropical regions admitted in a monographic unit NATALIA MOYA NOTARIO, MICHELE HERNÁNDEZ-CABRERA, CRISTINA CARRANZA-RODRÍGUEZ, ELENA PISOS-ÁLAMO, NIEVES JAÉN-SÁNCHEZ, JOSÉ-LUIS PÉREZ-ARELLANO Background. The aim was to analyse those syndromes with fever in travellers who return from tropical regions evaluated at our Department of Infectology and Tropical Medicine. Clarifying these […]

Evolution of the Complexity Index of the antiretroviral therapy in HIV+ patients in a real life clinical practice MERCEDES MANZANO-GARCÍA, AGUAS ROBUSTILLO-CORTÉS, CARMEN VICTORIA ALMEIDA-GONZÁLEZ, RAMÓN MORILLO-VERDUGO Introduction. HIV infection has been one of the biggest successes in the healthcare world, mainly due to the appearance of antiretroviral treatment (ART). The complexity of this type […]

Useful independent factors for distinguish infection and colonization in patients with urinary carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolation LAURA LÓPEZ-GONZÁLEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER CANDEL, JOSÉ MANUEL VIÑUELA-PRIETO, JUAN MARÍA GONZÁLEZ-DEL CASTILLO, ANA BELÉN GARCÍA, IRENE PENA, ICIAR RODRÍGUEZ-AVIAL Objective. The aim of this study is to know epidemiologic and clinical differences among those patients colonized or infected by carbapenemase-producing […]

BAHNG score: predictive model for detection of subjects with the oropharynx colonized by uncommon microorganisms JUAN GONZÁLEZ-DEL CASTILLO, JUAN TEJA-MARINA, FRANCISCO JAVIER CANDEL, JOSÉ BARBERÁN, ÁLVARO MORENO-CUERVO, FLAVIA CHIARELLA, LAURA LÓPEZ-GONZÁLEZ, PRIMITIVO RAMOS-CORDERO, FRANCISCO JAVIER MARTÍN-SÁNCHEZ Objective. Pneumonia is most frequently produced by the microaspiration of flora that colonizes the oropharynx. Etiological diagnosis of pneumonia […]