We studied the results of urine cultures and antimicrobial sensitivity tests according to the voiding method used by spinal cord injury (SCI) patients over a recent 10-year period. We retrospectively analyzed 1,236 urine samples and their antimicrobial sensitivity tests for 112 patients who had used...
AIM To evaluate the efficacy of antimicrobial susceptibilityguided therapy before first-line treatment for infection in patients with dual or triple antibiotic resistance.METHODS A total of 1034 patients infected by Helicobacter pylori(H. pylori) during 2013-2014 were tested for antimicrobial ...
Currently, little evidence is available to support the routine use of such testing for the care of individual patients. However, testing of new (investigational) antimicrobial agents can be beneficial in determining their potential to provide bactericidal antimicrobial activity during clinical use. New ...
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) technologies help to accelerate the initiation of targeted antimicrobial therapy for patients with infections and could potentially extend the lifespan of current narrow-spectrum antimicrobials. Although concept
Albert MCohen C The Test for Severe Impairment: an instrument for the assessment of patients with severe cognitive dysfunction. J Am Geriatr Soc 1992;40 (5) 449- 453PubMedGoogle Scholar 20. Polk REFox CMahoney ALetcavage JMacDougall C Measurement of adult antibacterial drug use in 130 ...
Clinical practice guideline for the use of antimicrobial agents in neutropenic patients with cancer: 2010 update by the infectious diseases society of amer... This document updates and expands the initial Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Fever and Neutropenia Guideline that was published...
The high percentage of resistance to quinolones in ETEC and EAEC isolated from travellers to North Africa and India is a matter for concern. These agents should therefore be used with caution in patients with traveller's diarrhoea returning from these geographical areas. 展开 关键词: ETEC EAEC ...
The average age of patients was 30 years (± 15.7 years) and most of them were males (78.1%; 95% confidence interval [CI] 76.2–77.5). Most samples were collected for medical reasons − i.e. for medical infections and not surgery-related infections − (64.6%; 95% CI 62.7–66.6) ...
This cross-sectional study evaluates the appropriateness of antimicrobial use for hospitalized patients treated for community-acquired pneumonia or a
last resort. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified the emergence of carbapenem-resistantKlebsiella pneumoniaeas its leading priority10.K. pneumoniaeand related species are the most prominent carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and cause an excess hospital mortality of 27% in patients ...