This applies, for example, to screening for the presence of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) organisms, including ESBL- and carbapenemase-producing bacteria, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Screening for the (asymptomatic) presence of rotavirus is not routinely...
it depends a lot on the day, but from a high level, I coordinate with our local antibiotic stewardship teams that each of our hospitals to try to identify kind of the common problems facing everyone and try to take that and come up with the systematic...
non-culture diagnostic tests may be useful to diagnose promptly fungal disease. Numerous methods have been developed for detecting fungal cell antigens such as Aspergillus galactomannan (GM), 1,3-β-D-glucan or nuclear amplification assays to identify fungal DNA for early...
Objective - To identify the epidemiological characteristic of acute hepatitis B in Lebanon. This study covers the period extending from January 1, 1997 to ... D Mayeda 被引量: 2发表: 2010年 States of Resistance: nosocomial and environmental approaches to antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon and on...
SECs are poor markers of urine culture contamination. [33] One study evaluated a quantitative threshold of SECs. [33] In that study, samples with fewer than 8 SECs/lpf demonstrated greater ability to predict bacteriuria on urinalysis (+LR 4.98), but SECs did not accurately identify contaminated...
Finally, in the case of time-dependent antibiotics, a simple trough concentration measurement can identify an exposure < MIC, although this approach cannot be used to calculate patient-specific PK parameters [5]. To date, no study has demonstrated the superiority of the use of Bayesian analyses ...