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Characteristics and risk factors of secondary bacterial infections in COVID-19 patients

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Objective: To describe the characteristics and find out risk factors of COVID-19 patients infected with different categories of bacteria. Design: Case-control.
Guangjie Wu, Jianhua Lu, Dong Liu, Yan He   +3 more
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Prevalence of Gram-positive and negative bacteria associated with external ocular infection in Wasit province, Iraq

Medical Journal of Babylon, 2023
Background: In developing countries, ocular infections are a significant public health concern, particularly bacterial infections, which are common. This research aimed to estimate how often Gram-positive and negative bacteria are present in individuals ...
Mukal Assaad Hussein, Rana H Raheema, Hassan Khalil Melek, Hayder Abdul-Amir M Al-Hindy   +3 more
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Pattern of Bacterial Infections in Paediatric Patients with Chemotherapy-Induced Neutropenia

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2023
Objectives: To determine the frequency of bacterial infections and their sensitivity to various antibiotics in paediatric cancer patients having chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.
Shakeel Ahmad Chaudhry, Tariq Ghafoor, Syeda Maher Batool, Sumaira Khalil, Tanzeela Farah   +4 more
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Invasive Gram-Positive Bacterial Infection in Cancer Patients [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2014
Systematic studies have shown that gram-positive organisms are the leading cause of invasive bacterial disease in patients with cancer. A broad range of gram-positive bacteria cause serious infections in the cancer patient with the greatest burden of disease being due to staphylococci, streptococci, and enterococci.
Thomas, Holland, Vance G, Fowler, Samuel A, Shelburne   +2 more
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Prevalence of bacterial bloodstream infections and association between neutropenia and 30-day mortality among oncology inpatients at a university hospital in Saudi Arabia

Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2023
BACKGROUND: Cancer patients are highly prone to develop bacterial bloodstream infections (BSI) and are also at risk of neutropenia. Knowledge of the prevalence of these infections and whether neutropenia is associated with a change in mortality is ...
Khalifa Binkhamis, Ibrahim Aldakhil, Abdulrahman Alhawas, Alwaleed Alsaleh, Amjad Albaroudi, Bader Almuhanna, Mohaned Makkawi, Musa Alzahrani   +7 more
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Efficacy and safety of dalbavancin in the treatment of Gram-positive bacterial infections

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, 2021
In this meta-analysis, we assessed the clinical efficacy and safety of dalbavancin compared with commonly used anti-Gram-positive agents.PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library databases were searched from inception up to 25 February 2020. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the efficacy and safety of dalbavancin with other antibiotics against ...
Yuhang Wang, Jin Wang, Rui Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Yun Cai   +4 more
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Diabetic foot ulcer in India: Aetiological trends and bacterial diversity

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2023
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent epidemic metabolic disorders, responsible for a significant amount of physical, psychological and economic loss in human society.
Dipak S Kale, Geeta S Karande, Kailas D Datkhile   +2 more
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Sepsis patients with first and second-hit infections show different outcomes depending on the causative organism

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Objective. With improving rates of initial survival in severe sepsis, second-hit infections that occur following resolution of the primary insult carry an increasing burden of morbidity.
Matthew eMorgan, Matthew eMorgan, Tamas eSzakmany, Tamas eSzakmany, Sarah G Power, Patrick eOlaniyi, Kathy eRowan, Judith E Hall, Matthias eEberl, Matthias eEberl   +9 more
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Linezolid Resistance against Gram Positive Bacteria Isolated from Blood Stream Infections: A Challenging Threat

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2022
The gradual rise of multidrug resistant micro-organisms is a national concern for all health care providers. Linezolid belongs to the oxazolidinone class of antimicrobials.
Satish Chandel, Anuradha Dubey, Parag Sharma, Ramesh Agrawal   +3 more
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New antimicrobial agents for the treatment of Gram-positive bacterial infections [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2008
Since the 1970s, resistance to antimicrobial agents has become an escalating problem. In the last 25 years, treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria has been more problematical than ever, with infections being caused by multidrug-resistant organisms, particularly methicillin-resistant staphylococci, penicillin- and erythromycin ...
Aksoy, D.Y., Unal, S.
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