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1 Jun 2020

Urinary Tract Infection in Children: A Review of the Established Practice Guidelines

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a significant cause of morbidity in children. Delayed treatment is associated with complications that may result in chronic kidney disease and, subsequently, end-stage kidney disease.
1 Mins
1 Jun 2020

SUSANA Project: Real-World Data Coming From The Use of New Antimicrobial Drugs

Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health.1,2 In Italy, the issue of antimicrobial resistance is…
1 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Beyond Contact Precautions: What Do Surveillance Cultures Tell Us About Multidrug-Resistant Microorganisms in Critically Ill Patients? Data from a Public Hospital in São Paulo City, Brazil

In critically ill patients, colonisation by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria is a significant risk factor for the development of subsequent infections…
6 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Molecular Identification and Antifungal Susceptibility Profiles of Non-albicans Candida Species Clinical Isolates

There is an increasing incidence of life-threatening systemic mycoses, specifically fulminant infections by the Candida species in hospitalised patients…
2 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Evaluation of A New Commercial Disc Susceptibility Kit for Detection and Differentiation of Carbapenemases Produced by Enterobacterales

Perhaps the most significant development in clinical bacteriology over the last decade has been the global proliferation of Enterobacterales with…
1 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Outcomes of People Who Inject Drugs with Infectious Endocarditis and Valve Surgery

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a common disease state observed in people who inject drugs (PWID), with a 50–100 times higher incidence in PWID than the…
2 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Analysis of Escherichia Coli Phylotypes and Known Sepsis Causing Sequence Types in UK Sewage Reveals a Direct Link Between Sepsis Rates and Carriage of Pathogenic Sequence Types in the Community

UK Escherichia coli (E. coli) sepsis rates have been rising for the last 20 years, however the reason behind the consistent year on year increase is an…
2 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Direct Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionisation (MALDI) Identification from Positive Blood Cultures: Rapid Sepsityper®

Sepsis remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with high morbidity and mortality rates.1 Early and appropriate antimicrobial therapy is…
1 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Imported Schistosomiasis in Children: A Multicentre Study of Prevalence and Diagnostic Methods

Schistosomiasis is currently the second most common parasitosis in the world, following malaria, in terms of morbidity and mortality…
1 Mins
1 Jun 2020

Carrier Prevalence of Unknown Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Faecium Carriers in The Capital Region of Denmark

The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm)-carriers admitted to two of the hospitals…
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