Antibiotics are the main treatment forKlebsiella pneumoniaeinfections. Your doctor will send your blood, urine, sputum, or other body fluid to a lab to find out which antibiotic is the best one to treat your infection. Your doctor will start treatment as soon as they learn which antibiotic you...
Combination therapy with a beta-lactam antibiotic and an aminoglycoside is considered the standard for empiric treatment of cholangitis. Few comparative data exist to establish this as the optimal therapy. Ciprofloxacin monotherapy is as effective as combination therapy for acute suppurative cholangitis. [...
Antibiotic Resistance The emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens is of considerable concern since these pathogens represent a significant reason for treatment failure. K. pneumoniae is an opportunistic pathogen most likely to infect immunocompromised individuals in a hospital environment. Acquisition of an...
In the pre-antibiotic era, K. pneumoniae was an important cause of community-acquired pneumonia, especially in alcoholics and dia- betics. In the antibiotic era, K. pneumoniae became established in hospitals as a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections.1 In pediatric wards, it causes ...
Impact of changing pathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in the treatment of serious infections in hospitalized patients. The selection of drug-resistant pathogens in hospitalized patients with serious infections such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections (UTI), skin and skin-structure ...
(Table 4). Similar treatment failure rates were observed in the three most common antibiotic-class combinations: polymyxin plus a carbapenem, polymyxin plus tigecycline, polymyxin plus an aminoglycoside (30%, 29%, and 25% respectively; p=0.6). In three cases, triple antimicrobial therapy ...
For a better understanding of coregulatory processes, active surveillance of antibiotic resistance and virulence determinant prevalence are strongly advocated. This will allow for a more educated approach to infection prevention and treatment regimens. Further studies are required to study the clonal ...
GastrointestinalAcute abdominal pain and bloody diarrheain an adolescent after treatment with co-amoxiclav for an acute urinary infection were due toKlebsiella oxytoca[45A]. Antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis due toKlebsiella oxytocadiffers from antibiotic-associated diarrhea due toClostridium difficilein...
Antibiotic resistance genes and plasmid replicon types were identified by ResFinder version 4.0 and PlasmidFinder version 2.1, respectively, with higher than 80% identities and coverages via the ABRicate pipeline (https://github.com/tseemann/abricate) (18, 33). Transmission event determination. ...
Klebsiella infections commonly occur when one has a weak immune system due to medical treatment, ventilation, intravenous wound due to surgery or long-term antibiotic use. Klebsiella pneumoniae is the main cause of hospital-borne pneumonia disease, which was first described by Carl Friedlander, in ...