Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation: Where We Stand Today
ABSTRACT Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation has evolved from an experimental to a life‐saving procedure for children and adults with complications of gut failure (GF). Suboptimal long‐term outcomes of transplant elicit recent advances in surgical and medical gut rehabilitation along with the introduction of glucagon‐like peptide‐2 (GLP‐2 ...
Mohamed Maklad +5 more
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A dedicated fungal culture medium is useful in the diagnosis of fungemia: a retrospective cross-sectional study. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Mortality for candidemia ranges from 15% to 35%. Current guidelines recommend inoculating blood into three aerobic and three anaerobic blood culture bottles when candidemia is suspected, without mention of a fungal blood culture bottle ...
Shuwei Zheng +5 more
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Fungemia and other invasive fungal infections in Icelandic children. A nationwide study [PDF]
Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/OpenIntroduction: Invasive fungal infections are increasing in incidence.
Fjalar Elvarsson +6 more
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Pulmonary phaeohyphomycosis caused by phaeoacremonium in a kidney transplant recipient: Successful treatment with posaconazole [PDF]
We report a rare case of pulmonary phaeohyphomycosis in a 49-year-old woman 6 years after kidney transplantation. She presented with dyspnea, cough, and fatigue. Her chest CT scan revealed nodular opacities in the right upper lung. A fine needle aspirate
Brennan, Daniel C +4 more
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The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and microbiome science is reshaping strategies for modulating the gut microbiota to support healthy aging and precision nutrition. In this review, we synthesized recent advances in AI‐enabled tribiotic strategies—encompassing probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics—with particular emphasis on their ...
Mohammad Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan +3 more
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Breakthrough Candidemia Due to Multidrug-Resistant Candida glabrata during Prophylaxis with a Low Dose of Micafungin [PDF]
We identified a case of breakthrough candidemia in a 25-year-old patient receiving micafungin prophylaxis (50 mg/day). Five Candida glabrata isolates were obtained from blood cultures and were classified as multidrug-resistant isolates, since all of them
Bizerra, Fernando Cesar +6 more
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Immunotherapeutic Applications of Probiotics in Infectious Diseases Management: A Scoping Review
Probiotics are emerging as promising alternative therapies with diverse health applications, particularly in enhancing immunity and combating infectious diseases. This scoping review synthesizes evidence on the immunomodulatory and antimicrobial effects of well‐characterized strains, particularly species of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus. Probiotics
Samson Adedeji Adejumo +8 more
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Commercial strain-derived clinical Saccharomyces cerevisiae can evolve new phenotypes without higher pathogenicity [PDF]
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Antunovics, Zsuzsa +11 more
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Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children with hematological malignancies as well as those undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Extreme immunological dysregulation secondary to severe neutropenia, T‐cell lymphopenia, graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD), intensive chemotherapy ...
Matin Pourghasem +11 more
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Clinical Significance of Rare Non-Candida Yeasts in Pediatric Fungemia: A Retrospective Analysis
Background: Fungemia caused by non-Candida yeasts is rare but represents an emerging clinical problem that remains less well recognized and studied. These organisms often exhibit intrinsic resistance or reduced susceptibility to commonly used empirical ...
Gül Arga +14 more
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