Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common complication among kidney transplant patients. UTI caused by multi-resistant extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing bacteria (ESBL) have largely increased among the hospitalized patient population and especially kidney transplant recipients. We ret...
In 2017, I got a UTI where I wasn’t responding to oral antibiotics. It turned out I had developed ESBL; it’s like an antibiotic-resistant E. coli infection. Since I had the first one, I’ve probably had six or seven more, and I’ve ended up in the hospital at least five times...
Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidance on the Treatment of Extended-Spectrum β-lactamase Producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E), Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Difficult-to-Treat Resistance (DTR-P. aeruginosa). Clin. Infect. Dis. 2020, 72, e169–e...