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Immunocompetent Woman (immunocompetent + woman)

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Acyclovir resistance in herpes simplex encephalitis

ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY, Issue 6 2010
Eva C. Schulte MD
Herpes simplex virus type 1 is a common cause of severe sporadic encephalitis. Treatment with acyclovir is highly effective in this disease. We report the case of a 27-year-old, immunocompetent woman with acyclovir-resistant herpes simplex encephalitis. Although she had not been treated before, herpes simplex virus type 1 DNA from the cerebrospinal fluid showed a non-synonymous mutation in the thymidine kinase gene, which is likely to have caused resistance to acyclovir. Herpes simplex encephalitis resolved after treatment with foscarnet. To our knowledge, this is the first report of acyclovir-resistant herpes simplex virus encephalitis in an immunocompetent, previously therapy-naive adult. ANN NEUROL 2010;67:830,833 [source]

Relapsing erysipelas of the buttock due to Streptococcus agalactiae in an immunocompetent woman

CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, Issue 2 2009
C. Bachmeyer
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Detection of Bartonella henselae , DNA in macronodular hepatic lesions of an immunocompetent woman

CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION, Issue 2009
S. Mastrandrea
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Prevalence of Candida dubliniensis among the stored vaginal Candida isolates in a Turkish hospital

MYCOSES, Issue 9-10 2004
Z. C. Acikgoz
Candida dubliniensis; Vagina; Türkei Summary In this study, 600 stored Candida species, isolated from vaginal samples of immunocompetent women, and phenotypically identified as C. albicans on the basis of a positive germ tube test, were screened for the presence of C. dubliniensis by three phenotypical methods. Only one strain (0.17%) failed to grow at 45 °C, and produced abundant chlamydospores on both the cornmeal-Tween 80 agar and the Staib agar. This strain was identified as C. dubliniensis by using the ID-32C kit (bioMerieux Vitek) and confirmed by DNA sequencing of internal transcript spacer (ITS) region. Zusammenfassung In einem Kollektiv von 600 vaginalen Isolaten, die phänotypisch als Candida albicans identifiziert worden waren, wurden mit drei phänotypischen Methoden auf das Vorhandensein von Candida dubliniensis untersucht. Nur ein einziger Stamm wuchs nicht bei 45 °C und produzierte massenhaft Chlamydosporen auf Maismehl-Tween 80- und Staib-Agar. Der Stamme wurdem mittels ID-32C-Kit Biomérieux Vitek als Candida dubliniensis identifiziert, was mittels DNA-Sequenzierung der ITS-Region bestätigt wurde. [source]