Worldwide, people acquire more than 1 million curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) every day. Based on prevalence data from 2009 to 2016, in 2019, WHO published estimates of new cases of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis and trichomoniasis, showing total estimated incident cases of 376.4 million ...
Before initiation of antibiotic treatment, a specimen should be obtained for microbiological diagnostics. The first choice is an ulcer biopsy, as this method has the best microbiological diagnostic precision. It is important that the clinician arrives at the choice of diagnostics in consultation with the...
Esta guía de práctica clínica, en cuya elaboración se siguió el método GRADE, tiene por objeto proveer recomendaciones para el manejo de pacientes adultos críticos con COVID-19 atendidos en las unidades de cuidados intensivos. Ofrece recomendaciones basadas en evidencia para la identificación de ...
Patient Care Management,
Critical Care,
COVID-19/diagnostic imaging,
COVID-19/complications,
COVID-19/drug therapy,
SARS-CoV-2/drug effects,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Americas/epidemiology,
Risk Factors,
Ventilators, Mechanical,
Plasma/immunology,
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use,
Immunologic Factors/therapeutic use
This guideline covers preventing bacterial infection in healthy babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age, treating pregnant women whose unborn baby is at risk of infection, and caring for babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age with a suspected or confirmed ...
Antimicrobial overuse is a major health care issue that contributes to antibiotic resistance. Such overuse includes unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy in patients with common bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, com...
Direct maternal infections around the time of childbirth account for about one tenth of
the global burden of maternal death. Women who develop peripartum infections are also
prone to severe morbidity, long-term disabilities such as chronic pelvic pain, fallopian tube
blockage and secondary infertility. M...
La infección por Helicobacter pylori (HP) es la infección crónica más común en humanos (1, 2).
Se trata de una bacteria gram negativa espiralada, microaerofílica (3) que por su contenido en
ureasa, motilidad y capacidad para adherirse al epitelio gástrico puede sobrevivir y proliferar en
el medio ...
Sieswerda, E;
Boer, M.G.J. de;
Bonten, M. M. J;
Boersma, W. G;
Jonkers, R. E;
Aleva, R. M;
Kullberg, B. J;
Schouten, J. A;
van de Garde, E.M. W;
Verheij, T. J;
van der Eerden, M. M;
Prins, J. M;
Wiersinga, W. J.
The Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy constituted a multidisciplinary expert committee to provide evidence-based recommendation for the use of antibacterial therapy in hospitalized adults with a respiratory infection and suspected or proven 2019 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We performed a liter...
Falavigna, Maicon;
Colpani, Verônica;
Stein, Cinara;
Azevedo, Luciano César Pontes;
Bagattini, Ângela Maria;
Brito, Gabriela Vilela de;
Chatkin, José Miguel;
Cimerman, Sérgio;
Corradi, Mirian de Freitas Dal Ben;
Cunha, Clóvis Arns da;
Medeiros, Flávia Cordeiro de;
Oliveira Júnior, Haliton Alves de;
Fritscher , Leandro Genehr;
Gazzana, Marcelo Basso;
Graf, Débora Dalmas;
Marra, Lays Pires;
Matuoka , Jéssica Yumi;
Nunes, Michelle Silva;
Pachito, Daniela Vianna;
Pagano, Cássia Garcia Moraes;
Parreira, Patrícia do Carmo Silva;
Riera, Rachel;
Silva Júnior, Amilton;
Tavares, Bruno de Melo;
Zavascki, Alexandre Prehn;
Rosa, Régis Goulart;
Dal-Pizzol, Felipe.
Different therapies are currently used, considered, or proposed for the treatment of COVID-19; for many of those therapies, no appropriate assessment of effectiveness and safety was performed. This document aims to provide scientifically available evidence-based information in a transparent interpretatio...
Coronavirus Infections/drug therapy,
Aminoquinolines/therapeutic use,
Oseltamivir/therapeutic use,
Lopinavir/therapeutic use,
Ritonavir/therapeutic use,
Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use,
Heparin/therapeutic use,
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use,
Betacoronavirus/drug effects,
Pneumonia, Viral/drug therapy,
Pandemics/prevention & control
The purpose of this guideline is to ensure the best treatment for adults with suspected or confirmed pneumonia in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic and best use of NHS resources. We have withdrawn our guideline on diagnosing and managing pneumonia in adults until further notice....
