Cosmina Gingaras

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What is your view on eradication of colonization with VRE in immunocompromised patients?

I've recently seen an adult patient with fimosis and a Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolated from his urthera. There were no local signs of inflammation or infection and the...

24 January 2018 3,846 2 View

Administration of i.v. leucovorin/folinic acid in adjunctive treatment of cerebral toxoplasmosis?

We need to treat a patient with cerebral toxoplasmosis with pyrimethamine because he is allergic to trimetoprim-sulfamethoxazole. We only have 100 mg/10 ml vials of leucovorin/calcium folinate in...

15 November 2017 7,421 0 View

Pattern of HBs antigen, antibodies and HBV viremia upon reinfection with a different genotype?

If someone were infected with genotype A of HBV, cleared the infection and then became chronically infected with genotype B, what would his patterns of HBs antigen & antibody look like...

02 September 2017 7,565 4 View

What is the logic behind the choice of vaccine formulation (whole inactivated vs recombinant) and schedules (number of doses, boosters, catch-up)?

I would like to better understand how each of the vaccines we currently recommend work. So essentially my question is about your favorite source for vaccinology, but I am interested in details...

20 July 2016 848 7 View

Measles in an MMR-vaccinated adult with bone marrow aplasia?

How likely is it that a young person who received the MMR vaccine as a child and later developed leukemia and bone marrow aplasia will catch measles from close proximity with a sick person and...

12 February 2016 3,523 3 View

Is hepatitis D+E coinfection possible in the absence of hep B co-infection?

I've recently heard of a case of fulminant hepatitis with hep D and E. The person who told me about the case insists that hepB was negative and I have a hard time believing this scenario. Is it...

23 September 2015 600 6 View

How long should we treat a case of otomastoiditis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa?

Hello! We have a patient who underwent surgery for a serious case of bilateral otomastoditis. The lab identified the culprit to be Pseudomonas aeruginosa. She was started in Ceftazidime and...

03 December 2014 6,558 7 View