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{"title":"State of the Globe: Computed Tomography and Bronchoscopy for Improved Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in India.","authors":"Suman Thakur, Vivek Chauhan, Sunil Kumar Raina","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_153_22","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_153_22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"91-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/a1/22/JGID-14-91.PMC9552345.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33509942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Complicated Ulceroglandular Tularemia.","authors":"Branko Brmbolić,&nbsp;Jelica Grebenarović,&nbsp;Uroš Karić","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_82_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_82_21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 52-year-old woman presented with a tender swelling in the right axilla, fever, a headache, nausea, and general weakness. On examination, she was found to have lymphangitis on the right arm and red papules on the 1^st and 2^nd fingers of the right hand. She had had prepared wild rabbit stew 5 days before disease onset. Serology and an ultrasound of the right axilla confirmed the diagnosis of ulceroglandular tularemia. The lymphadenitis did not resolve after streptomycin treatment so an incision was made and 30 cc of purulent fluid drained. Over the course of the next 3 months, the fluid continued to drain. A radiographic fistulography was performed and it revealed a short main channel with a few long channels of varying caliber branching out from it, all terminating in a conglomerate of necrotic axillary lymph nodes. The lesions healed spontaneously and completely over the following 12 months without additional antibiotic therapy. Radiographic fistulography can help plot the course of the fistula/fistulas and demonstrate the anatomic features of the lesion in resource poor settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"120-121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/6e/80/JGID-14-120.PMC9552344.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Unusual Presentation of Malarial Infection: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.","authors":"Gladwin Jeemon","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_78_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_78_22","url":null,"abstract":"1. Yates VM, Rook GA. Mycobacterial infections. In: Burns T, Breathnach S, Cox N, Griffiths C, editors. Rook’s Textbook of Dermatology. 7th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Science; 2004. p. 28. 2. Aires NB, Santi CG, Nico MM. Tuberculid of the glans penis. Acta Derm Venereol 2006;86:552-3. 3. Nishigori C, Taniguchi S, Hayakawa M, Imamura S. Penis tuberculides: Papulonecrotic tuberculides on the glans penis. Dermatologica 1986;172:93-7. Access this article online","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"123-124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/36/7b/JGID-14-123.PMC9552349.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33509943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Invasive Listeriosis: Molecular Determinants of Virulence and Antimicrobial Resistance.","authors":"Naveen Kumar,&nbsp;Angel T Miraclin,&nbsp;Karthik Gunasekaran,&nbsp;Balaji Veeraraghavan","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_94_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_94_22","url":null,"abstract":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases ¦ Volume 14 ¦ Issue 3 ¦ July-September 2022 125 Gram-stained smears. Smears showing thin, filamentous Gram-positive bacilli need to be examined with modified acid-fast staining.[4] The value of direct microscopic Gram stain examination of specimens is immense since early diagnosis and treatment are associated with improved clinical outcomes. (4) Thorough examination of repeated samples may be required in suspected cases.","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"125-127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/3a/aa/JGID-14-125.PMC9552339.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Laboratory Cost Analysis of Conventional and Newer Molecular Tests for Diagnosis of Presumptive Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients.","authors":"Raj Narayan Yadav,&nbsp;Ajoy Kumar Verma,&nbsp;Gaurav Kaushik","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_309_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_309_21","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Tuberculosis (TB) remains a deadliest infectious disease. Lack of rapid test with low cost is one of the important challenges to eradicate the TB. The objective of the study was to analyze the laboratory costs of conventional and newer molecular tests, for diagnosis of presumptive multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A detailed laboratory cost of various conventional tests (Ziehl - Neelsen [ZN] microscopy, light-emitting diode-fluorescent microscopy [LED-FM], culture and drug susceptibility testing [DST] using solid Lowenstein-Jensen media and liquid media [BACTEC MGIT 960]) was compared with rapid methods (GenoType MTBDR<i>plus</i> line probe assay [LPA] and GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay). Laboratory cost was also calculated in terms of cost per TB and MDR-TB case detected by using different diagnostic scenarios.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cost per test for ZN microscopy, LED-FM, LPA, GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay, solid culture plus DST, liquid culture plus DST was found as $2.5 (INR 156.8), $2.0 (INR128.9), $18.6 (INR1210), $13.8 (INR 895.2), $21.5 (INR 1396.6), and $29.1 (INR 1888.2), respectively. The laboratory cost for detecting TB and MDR-TB by diagnostic scenarios involving molecular DST was found to be less as compared to involving only conventional liquid culture-based test.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The implementation of rapid molecular tests with selective use of liquid culture-based DST may be less in cost as compared to the use of culture-based DST alone, at high burden reference TB laboratory.</p>","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"93-98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/1f/21/JGID-14-93.PMC9552341.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fertility Desires and its Predictors among Persons Living with HIV in a Secondary Health Facility in Northcentral Nigeria.","authors":"Chikwendu Amaike,&nbsp;Tolulope Olumide Afolaranmi,&nbsp;Blessing Adaku Amaike,&nbsp;Hadiza Abigail Agbo,&nbsp;Olumide Abiodun","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_6_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_6_22","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Among people living with HIV (PLHIV), fertility desire which is the desire to have more children is increasing due to the improvement in quality of life and survival resulting from anti-retroviral treatment and also improved sexual and reproductive health services. Fertility desires can result in increased risk of HIV transmission, especially in unprotected heterosexual intercourse. There is limited information regarding the fertility desires and predictors among PLHIV in our environment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study was aimed at assessing the fertility desires and predictors in PLHIV in Northcentral Nigeria. Study was descriptive cross-sectional. Semi-structured interviewer administered pretested questionnaires was used to get information from 170 PLHIV accessing care in a secondary health-care facility selected by the systematic sampling technique. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software version 23.0. At 95% confidence interval (CI), a <i>P</i> < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Chi-square and logistic regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fertility desire was found among 64.1% of the respondents. Younger age (odds ratio [OR] = 0.2270; 95% CI = 0.0662-0.7791, <i>P</i> = 0.0184), having no child or a smaller number of children (OR = 0.0432; CI = 0.0046-0.4050; <i>P</i> = 0.0059) and suppressed viral loads (OR = 4.1069; CI = 1.1650-14.4784; <i>P</i> = 0.0280) were the predictors for fertility desire.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study showed that PLHIV had high fertility desires but do not know any safe method of conception, hence intensified effort should be made by primary care providers and other health-care workers to include sexual and reproductive health counselling during routine HIV clinic visits to enable PLHIV make informed decision about their fertility desires.</p>","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"106-111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e8/1d/JGID-14-106.PMC9552346.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33509946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiple Punched Out Ulcers and Scars over Glans: A Common Disease at Uncommon Site.","authors":"Pratik Dey,&nbsp;Sudip Mandal,&nbsp;Subhasmita Baisya,&nbsp;Subhadeep Mallick","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_35_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_35_22","url":null,"abstract":"A 40-year-old man presented with multiple asymptomatic ulcers over glans penis for the past 5 years. The ulcers used to heal with scarring. He denied any history of unprotected sexual exposure, any history of genital lesions, or discharge in his spouse; there was no history of trauma, drug intake, fever, cough, and constitutional symptoms with no personal or family history of tuberculosis. The patient was never vaccinated with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin.","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"122-123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e6/79/JGID-14-122.PMC9552343.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection among Adults after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.","authors":"Sameer Abdul Samad,&nbsp;Jyoti Jethani,&nbsp;Lalit Kumar,&nbsp;Aashish Choudhary,&nbsp;Megha Brijwal,&nbsp;Lalit Dar","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_11_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_11_22","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of morbidity among hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients, with RSV-associated lower respiratory tract infection carrying high mortality rates. There have been no large studies till date, describing the incidence, clinical features, and outcomes of RSV infection among adult HSCT recipients in India. Methods: A prospective cohort of 100 adults who underwent HSCT was followed up for a maximum period of 18 months starting from the date of transplantation for any episode of respiratory tract infectious disease (RTID). Respiratory samples were collected for laboratory confirmation of the presence and subtyping of RSV by real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Results: The study population comprised of 66% (66/100) males and 34% (34/100) females. Autologous HSCT recipients constituted 78% (78/100) and allogeneic HSCT recipients constituted 22% (22/100) of the study population. The incidence of RSV-RTID among adults after HSCT was 0.82/100 patient months. Most cases occurred during the winter season and the predominant subtype was RSV-A (9/11, 81.8%). Lower RTID was the most common clinical diagnosis made at presentation (9/11, 81.8%). Female gender was predictive of RSV-RTID (log rank P = 0.002). All the RSV-RTID episodes recovered completely without targeted therapy. Conclusion: RSV is a significant cause of morbidity among adult HSCT recipients in India. Prophylaxis and treatment measures need to be instituted after a proper risk-benefit assessment. Longitudinal studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these results.","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"112-116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/a0/25/JGID-14-112.PMC9552342.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cryptogenic Liver Abscess Caused by a K1 Serotype <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> Isolate.","authors":"John J Psonis,&nbsp;Yamil Michelen,&nbsp;Kasturi Banerjee,&nbsp;Bettina C Fries,&nbsp;Sutthichai Sae-Tia","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_188_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_188_21","url":null,"abstract":"Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) is a common cause of pyogenic liver abscesses in Asia but is quite uncommon in North America. Among the cases described in North America, only occasional reports have described molecular strain typing to confirm the K1 strain as the causative agent. We report a 56-year-old Hispanic female with no previous intra-abdominal pathology and no recent travel, who presented with subacute abdominal pain and developed bacteremia and monomicrobial pyogenic liver abscess due to a community-acquired K1 serotype K. pneumoniae isolate. In this case, the infection was recognized early, so the patient was successfully treated with percutaneous drainage and prolonged antibiotic therapy. Hvkp can cause severe invasive disease with high morbidity and mortality, and the recent emergence of multidrug resistance in these strains poses a serious threat to public health. In addition, the isolation of a K1 K. pneumoniae strain from a cryptogenic liver abscess in a Hispanic patient with no epidemiologic risk factors raises concern for a wider spread of the hypervirulent strain beyond Asian populations. Therefore, a high index of suspicion for hvKp infection in the Hispanic population can be crucial as the hypervirulent strain is likely to cause severe metastatic infection with significant morbidity and mortality.","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"117-119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/6f/7a/JGID-14-117.PMC9552347.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gram Staining: A Simple Effective Tool for Diagnosis of Nocardiosis.","authors":"Nandakishore Baikunje,&nbsp;U Pratibha Bhat,&nbsp;Sruthi Vinayan","doi":"10.4103/jgid.jgid_96_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_96_22","url":null,"abstract":"RefeRences 1. World Health Organization. World Malaria Report 2016. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2016. 2. Trampuz A, Jereb M, Muzlovic I, Prabhu RM. Clinical review: Severe malaria. Crit Care 2003;7:315-23. 3. Daneshvar C, Davis TM, Cox-Singh J, Rafa’ee MZ, Zakaria SK, Divis PC, et al. Clinical and laboratory features of human Plasmodium knowlesi infection. Clin Infect Dis 2009;49:852-60. 4. Haydoura S, Mazboudi O, Charafeddine K, Bouakl I, Baban TA, Taher AT, et al. Transfusion-related Plasmodium ovale malaria complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in a non-endemic country. Parasitol Int 2011;60:114-6. 5. Descheemaeker PN, Mira JP, Bruneel F, Houzé S, Tanguy M, Gangneux JP, et al. Near-fatal multiple organ dysfunction syndrome induced by Plasmodium malariae. Emerg Infect Dis 2009;15:832-4. 6. Kochar DK, Das A, Kochar SK, Saxena V, Sirohi P, Garg S, et al. Severe Plasmodium vivax malaria: A report on serial cases from Bikaner in northwestern India. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2009;80:194-8. 7. Mohan A, Sharma SK, Bollineni S. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome in malaria. J Vector Borne Dis 2008;45:179-93.","PeriodicalId":51581,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Infectious Diseases","volume":"14 3","pages":"124-125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/32/dc/JGID-14-124.PMC9552348.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33537210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}