Between May 2018 and February 2020, we recorded soft tissue and/or bone infections caused by gram-negative extensively drug-resistant (XDR) bacteria in 4.9% (13/266) of the admitted patients. The XDR bacteria identified among 12 patients in this case series were extended-spectrum ...
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but is resistant to all known antibiotics. It may be responsible for dangerous inflammation of the urinary tract and digestive system or meningitis. The bacteria often dwells in hospitals and might lead to life-threatening sepsis.
1. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)Current/Emerging Resistant Bacteria Infection Types Resistance Notes Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus“staph” (MRSA) Infections can range from skin and soft tissue infections (cellulitis, abscess), to urinary tract infections, osteomyelitis (bone...
Antibiotic resistance, loss of susceptibility of bacteria to the killing (bacteriocidal) or growth-inhibiting (bacteriostatic) properties of an antibiotic agent. When a resistant strain of bacteria is the dominant strain in an infection, the infection ma
while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut. The drug, called lolamicin, also warded off secondary infections withClostridioides difficile, a common and dangerous hospital-associated bacterial infection, and was effective against more than 130 multidrug-resistant bacterial strains in c...
The data also show that bacteria associated with long-term acute care hospitals are more likely to be antibiotic resistant than those acquired in short-stay acute care hospitals; and HAIs in adult healthcare settings are more likely to be resistant than those in pediatrics. ...
Learn about antibiotic resistant bacteria and how they evolved. We will look at some examples of antibiotic resistant bacteria that currently...
A hitherto unknown antibiotic-resistant bacteria species, in the same family as E. coli and Salmonella spp., has been found and classified in Sweden. The proposed taxonomic name of the species—the first of the new genus—is Scandinavium goeteborgense, after the city of Gothenburg, where the...
This article provides a brief overview of select antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with a focus on the US epidemic, and the current clinical and molecular data regarding infection with organisms known to have significant clinical impact on children. ...