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Selected Abstracts of Articles Published Elsewhere by Authors in Kuwait September 2009
Methods: This is a retrospective review of a prospectively collected departmental database over a 6-year
period. Patients were eligible for the study if the BMI was or=16 microg/
ml), with 30 isolates carrying the tet(O) gene, including 19 isolates that carried the gene on a 35 kb plasmid.
Four selected tetracycline-resistant donor strains transferred the plasmids and tetracycline resistances
to a tetracycline-susceptible C. jejuni strain on conjugation. Tetracycline-resistant C. jejuni isolates were
genetically unrelated to each other by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Thus, tetracycline resistance
is common in C. jejuni isolates from Kuwait with the resistance determinant carried on transmissible
plasmids. We conclude that tetracycline resistance is a feature of C. jejuni in Kuwait as in other parts of the
world and that empirical therapy with tetracycline will yield variable results in Kuwait.
Mucoepidermoid Thymic Carcinoma: A Challenging Mediastinal Aspirate
Kapila K, Pathan SK, Amir T, Joneja M, Hebbar S, Al-Ayadhy B
Cytology Unit, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Diagn Cytopathol 2009 Feb 13 [Epub ahead of print]
Primary thymic carcinoma-mucoepidermoid cell (MEC) type is rare and only one report describing the
cytologic features of this neoplasm in the metastatic site is described. We describe the cytological features
of poorly differentiated carcinoma possibly MEC in a 54-year-old man who presented with cough, weight
loss, and puffiness of face for 3 months. The significance of this infrequently encountered neoplasm lies
in its potential confusion of origin of the tumor-thymus or metastases from a primary bronchial MEC.
Immunocytochemical profile was suggestive of a thymic carcinoma of the MEC type.