OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) bowel colonization in hospitalized patients in Manitoba who had stool specimens collected for Clostridium difficile toxin and/or culture ...

Despite recent advances in hepatic surgery, resection of the cirrhotic liver continues to be fraught with high morbidity and mortality rates. As a result, for many patients requiring resection of HCC the postoperative ...

In another paper, we have argued that the traditional randomized design of clinical trials is ethically infeasible in desperate medical situations and adaptive designs are morally required. We have also argued that in such ...

BACKGROUND: Asthma exacerbations can be provoked by many triggers such as allergens, respiratory irritants and viral infections. The relative importance of these has not been prospectively documented in a case-control ...

Invasive infection may complicate the course of neutropenic cancer patients receiving intensive chemotherapy. The rate of complications is related to prognostic factors including the underlying malignant diagnosis, the ...

Failure of tuberculosis patients to respond to treatment is usually explained by one or more of five mechanisms: improper drug prescription; patient nonadherence to prescribed therapy; primary or acquired drug resistance; ...

Influenza is a major cause of illness and death in residents of long term care facilities for the elderly, in part because residents' age and underlying illness increase the risk of serious complications, and in part because ...