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Boyfriend HIV positive
Hello, I had a lung transplant nine months ago. Now I have fallen in love and my boyfriend is HIV positive. What do we have to keep in mind, and what are the risks? Many thanks for your answer!
04.10.2011
treatment of ralstonia pickettii
Dear team, Recently the germ Ralstonia pickettii was found in my sputum for the first time. It was resistant against all tested antibiotics. In between my sputum is tested in a more specialized lab but there is no result so far. These results shall help to organize the next infusions which are due ...
01.09.2011
Humid sulfur rooms - treatment of pseudomonas or other bacterias
First of all I would like to tell that I have son with CF, 2 y.o. He had pseudomonas 1 year ago, treated succesfully but now he has pseudomonas again. Waiting for 2nd phase of treatment in the hospital. I want to tell another thing:I visited in Sicilia, Italia, Terme di Sciacca. I spoke to the ...
30.08.2011
Burkholderia gladioli
Dear expert team, after a 15-day imipenem therapy against Burkholderia gladioli, the first germ test was negative; now a few weeks later, however, an infection is traceable again. How would you proceed? Symptomatically, there is pain during breathing, which had ceased immediately after therapy ...
30.08.2011
Further question on ESBL
Hello, Recently there was a question and answer on ESBL e.coli. Both our children have CF and keep having germs with ESBL feature again and again, which have not caused any clinical problems so far. Now, however, a planned rehabilitation measure was cancelled on short notice because of this ...
30.08.2011
Ripened cheeses, bacteria, moistures
Hi. In our family we like sometimes to eat not pasteurized and well ripened cheeses. Is it dangerous for our child to come with us to the cheese dairy (he doesn’t touch the cheeses and doesn’t visit the maturing cellars)? On the other hand, can he eat these cheeses (I think to the blue cheeses ...
02.08.2011
pepper
Hi, we have heard about bacteria in pepper (pseudomonas ? cepacia complex ?). Is it true, because we don’t use pepper yet? Thanks.
02.08.2011
Virulence of ESBL-E. coli
One year ago, during a bronchoscopy of my son (13) ESBL (=extendend-spectrum beta-lactamase) (e. coli) have been detected in the lungs. Which specific potentail of danger have these germs, particularly as I do only get few to no information from the center, to which subgroup the specific ESBL-germ ...
01.08.2011
Mycobacterium abscessus and impaired function of the liver
My 24-year old female patient has a colonization of the airways with M. abscessus for 9 months. There are hints for an infection of the lung with M. abscessus (decrease of FEV1, infiltrations, cultural and microscopical detection of the germ in the bronchial secretions and bronchoalveolar lavage). ...
01.08.2011
Visit of the zoo (tropical landscape)
Dear ladies and gentlemen, I would like to visit the zoo with my son (CF) in the city of Leipzig, Germany. This zoo has as an attraction a tropical section with high humidity, which is, according to my view, generated via finely nebulized water. Which measure could I undertake in order to ...
01.08.2011
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