In these cases, there was no microbiologic evidence of TB, and the patient often had another condition that would explain the symptoms reported.
We used the definition of pulmonary NTM infection from the 2007 American Thoracic Society/Infections Disease Society of America NTM guideline, which encompassed 3 major components: clinical signs and symptoms, radiologic findings, and microbiologic evidence (1 ).
Epidemiologic and microbiologic evidence strongly suggests that United Nations peacekeeping troops from Nepal imported cholera to Haiti, contaminated the river tributary next to their base through a faulty sanitation system and caused a second disaster.
Implant infection was defined as definite, probable, or possible based on clinical, radiologic, and microbiologic evidence.
The unchlorinated water supply had microbiologic evidence of fecal organisms and the potential for chronic contamination with surface water.
This investigation provides strong epidemiologic and microbiologic evidence that herbal tea containing aniseed caused this diffuse outbreak of S. Agona among infants.
Gill et al. [ 14] found histologic and microbiologic evidence of bacterial pneumonia in 55% of 34 people who died following a confirmed pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus infection.
For the majority of ICU patients at high IC risk, a preemptive antifungal strategy, based on clinical risk factors and microbiologic evidence of substantial colonization, is proposed [ 7, 8, 25].
This study provides compelling epidemiologic and microbiologic evidence that persons living or working on farms in Denmark, particularly pig farms, are at increased risk of being colonized or infected with MRSA CC398.
Briefly, latent monkeys are asymptomatic and lack radiographic or microbiologic evidence of Mtb infection beyond three months post infection [18], [21].
