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Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus bacteriae
Dear, Can patients with CF and lung infection with eg Pseudomonas cough up bits of tissue?
19.07.2015
Reliability of result throat swab/sputum
Dear expert team, I would like to know how reliable are throat swabs of children indeed and also sputum results of adult CF patients. We are having regular throat swabs of our 6-year-old daughter done, as we are cared for in two centers, it deals with different laboratories, sometimes also a swab ...
07.06.2015
Acinetobacter calceticus baumannii Complex
Hello, Is there a need/obligation for treatment if very low occurrence of the above mentioned bacterium was tested? Are there certain precautions that have to be taken respective other CF persons or physiotherapists? The symptom is mild cough. Inhalation with Tobramycin is done. Is that enough ...
12.06.2015
Need to treat?
Dear ladies and gentlemen, I have the following bacteria: - a great number of Pseudomonas putida (I have otherwise no Pseudomonas) - a great number of Haemophilus parainfluenza - Aspergillus fumigatus At the moment I cough more and I am very tired. My lung function is stable. How do you ...
06.06.2015
Induced sputum in baby (with additional comment)
Dear expert team, my daughter (7 weeks old) has been diagnosed to suffer from CF because of a positive newborn screening. She has no symptoms until now. In the coming week, further diagnostic is done and the beginning of a therapy during a stay on the ward. I have been told, that every 4 weeks an ...
04.06.2015
Phage therapy
Dear ladies and gentlemen, in the past, it has been written quite a few times about this topic, but as some time passed inbetween, I ask myself, if there are important findings. My husband (30, CF), has for about 10 years the germ Achromobacter xylosoxidans in the sputum. This germ did until ...
16.05.2015
Achromobacter xylosoxidans
Dear expert team, in diverse treads in the past there can again and again be read, that a colonization with Achromobacter xyl. should be treated according to the individual course. Starting situation: my daughter (17y) is chronically colonized with Achromobacter + Staphylococcus and again and ...
06.05.2015
Mycobacterium abscessus - therapy with clofazimin?
Dear expert team, In 2010 I have been diagnosed to have beneath Pseudomonas also Mycobacterium abscessus. After long-term i.v. antibiotic therapies the germ was not eliminated. It causes hard problems. Since August 2014 the infections occurred more and more often and in the lung abscesses ...
06.05.2015
Carbapenems
Hello, in the past time, an i.v. therapy (four times in 6 months) has been done several times in order to fight the bacterium Achromobacter xylosoxidans. This has been always very successful with Imipenem/Cilastin and 3-4 weeks no further intake of antibiotics had been necessary. However, again ...
02.04.2015
Achromobacter
Hello, The last sputum examination for my son showed a low colonization of Achromobacter. He had an intravenous treatment but that did not work. I would like to know if you have information on the consequences of this germ to the lungs but also whether it will worsen faster his health. Thank ...
13.03.2015
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