Experience with daptomycin daily dosing in ICU patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy [PDF]
Purpose: For critically ill patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), daptomycin dosing recommendations are scarce. We, therefore, retrospectively assessed routinely measured daptomycin plasma concentrations, daptomycin dose ...
Corti, N. +3 more
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Two successive calcium-dependent transitions mediate membrane binding and oligomerization of daptomycin and the related antibiotic A54145 [PDF]
The final publication is available at Elsevier via http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.05.020 © 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Daptomycin and A54145 are ...
Butt, Khalida +7 more
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ABSTRACT Prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement for nutritional management prior to chemoradiotherapy is a common procedure in patients with head and neck cancer, for which serious complications are rare. Herein, we present a case of abdominal wall abscess that developed 12 days following prophylactic PEG placement in a ...
Ryuji Okamoto +6 more
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Daptomycin-Induced Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES)
Aims. To present a 60-year-old female patient who manifested clinical and radiological features of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) following the administration of Daptomycin for glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcal urinary tract ...
A. Bitar De Zayas-Enriquez, C. Soper
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Evaluation of an Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Program in a Specialty Clinic Setting [PDF]
Introduction: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) has gained popularity since its first description in 1974. At Community Health Network (CHN), the OPAT clinic was developed three years ago by an ambulatory care clinical pharmacist and ...
Hauk, Elizabeth
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The Dimerization Interface in VraR is Essential to Induction of the Cell Wall Stress Response in Staphylococcus aureus: A potential Druggable Target [PDF]
Background Staphylococcus aureus remains a medical challenge in the treatment of bacterial infections. It has acquired resistance to commonly used antibiotics, and to those considered to be the last weapons in treating staphylococcal infections, such as
Golemi-Kotra, Dasantila +1 more
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Clindamycin and daptomycin failure in PVL‐positive MRSA infection of the skin and soft tissue
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Michael Zolotas +4 more
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Ionomycin exhibits potent and selective bactericidal activity against Clostridioides difficile, rapidly reducing vegetative cells, toxin production, sporulation, and spore germination while sparing representative gut microbiota. Its activity is calcium‐dependent and mediated through disruption of bacterial membrane potential, highlighting ionomycin as ...
Ahmed A. Abouelkhair +2 more
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A Retrospective Analysis of Treatment and Clinical Outsomes among Patients with Methicillin-Susceptible \u3cem\u3eStaphlococcus aureus\u3c/em\u3e Bloodstream Isolates Possessing detecable mecA by a Commercial PCR Assay Compared to Patients with Methicillin-Resistant \u3cem\u3eStaphylococcus aureus\u3c/em\u3e Bloodstream Isolates [PDF]
mecA-positive Staphylococcus aureus isolates phenotypically susceptible to cefoxitin (mecA-methicillin-sensitive S. aureus[MSSA]) have been identified. We describe the treatment and outcomes among patients with mecA-MSSA bloodstream infections (BSI) and ...
Dilworth, Thomas J. +3 more
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Spirochetal Lipoproteins and Immune Evasion. [PDF]
Spirochetes are a major threat to public health. However, the exact pathogenesis of spirochetal diseases remains unclear. Spirochetes express lipoproteins that often determine the cross talk between the host and spirochetes.
Boyadjian, Ani +2 more
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