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Crippling of Klebsiella pneumoniae virulence by metformin, N-acetylcysteine and secnidazole

BMC Microbiology, 2023
Introduction The emergence of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in hospitals represents a serious threat to public health. Infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae are widespread in healthcare institutions, mainly pneumonia, bloodstream ...
Shokri M. Shafik, Hisham A. Abbas, Nehal Yousef, Moustafa M. Saleh   +3 more
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Modelling the Gastrointestinal Carriage of Klebsiella pneumoniae Infections

mBio, 2022
Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the pathogens that is sweeping the world in the antibiotic resistance pandemic. Klebsiella colonizes the nasopharynx and the gut of healthy subjects in an asymptomatic manner, making gut colonization a requisite for infection.
Ricardo Calderon-Gonzalez, Alix Lee, Guillermo Lopez-Campos, Steven J. Hancock, Joana Sa-Pessoa, Amy Dumigan, Ronan McMullan, Eric L. Campbell, Jose A. Bengoechea   +8 more
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Increased human pathogenic potential of Escherichia coli from polymicrobial urinary tract infections in comparison to isolates from monomicrobial culture samples [PDF]

, 2011
The current diagnostic standard procedure outlined by the Health Protection Agency for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in clinical laboratories does not report bacteria isolated from samples containing three or more different bacterial species.
Cheetham, P, Croxall, G, Joseph, S, Manning, G, McNally, A, Weston, V   +5 more
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Phenotypic Characterization of Virulence Factors and Antibiogram of Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from Various Clinical Samples – A Cross Sectional Study

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2022
K. pneumoniae is known to cause hospital and community acquired infections. It is usually associated with upper & lower respiratory infections, septicaemia, urinary tract infection, wound infections, neonatal sepsis, meningitis, and endophthalmitis.
Madhavi S. Hullur, Arvind Natarajan, P.N. Sreeramulu   +2 more
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Global burden of colistin-resistant bacteria : mobilized colistin resistance genes study (1980-2018) [PDF]

, 2019
Colistin is considered to be an antimicrobial of last-resort for the treatment of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. The recent global dissemination of mobilized colistin resistance (mcr) genes is an urgent public health threat.
Elbediwi, Mohammed, Fang, Weihuan, Feng, Youjun, Li, Xiaoliang, Li, Yan, Pan, Hang, Paudyal, Narayan, Rajkovic, Andreja, Rankin, Shelley C., Xie, Shaohua, Yue, Min   +10 more
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Ceftriaxone- and ceftazidime-resistant species, , and methicillin-resistant dominate caesarean surgical site infections at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

SAGE Open Medicine, 2020
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the proportion and mechanism of resistance to ceftriaxone and ceftazidime among Klebsiella species and Escherichia coli and examine the burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from ...
Yvonne N Wekesa, Fatuma Namusoke, Musa Sekikubo, Dennis Wandera Mango, Freddie Bwanga   +4 more
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Infection Sources and Klebsiella pneumoniae Antibiotic Susceptibilities in Endogenous Klebsiella Endophthalmitis

Antibiotics, 2022
Endogenous endophthalmitis is an uncommon intraocular infection with potentially devastating consequences on vision. Klebsiella pneumoniae is highly prevalent in East Asian countries, with an increasing incidence recently worldwide. This retrospective study investigates infection sources and antibiotic susceptibilities of K. pneumoniae in patients with
Kuan-Jen Chen, Yen-Po Chen, Yi-Hsing Chen, Laura Liu, Nan-Kai Wang, An-Ning Chao, Wei-Chi Wu, Yih-Shiou Hwang, Hung-Da Chou, Eugene Yu-Chuan Kang, Yen-Ting Chen, Ming-Hui Sun, Chi-Chun Lai   +12 more
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Clinical microbiology study of diabetic foot ulcer in Iran; pathogens and antibacterial susceptibility [PDF]

, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate microbial pathogens and their antibiotic susceptibility profile in infected diabetic foot ulcers in Iranian patients.
Hayatshahi, A., Heshmat, R., Nikoo, M.K., Qorbani, M., Rouhipour, N., Yazdi, N.M.   +5 more
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European intensive care physicians’ experience of infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria [PDF]

, 2020
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) compromises the treatment of patients with serious infections in intensive care units (ICUs), and intensive care physicians are increasingly facing patients with bacterial infections with limited or no adequate ...
De Waele, Jan, Friggeri, Arnaud, Garnacho-Montero, José, Gustin, Marie Paule, Jean, Astrid, Kohlenberg, Anke, Lepape, Alain, Monnet, Dominique L., Savey, Anne, Vanhems, Philippe   +9 more
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A shared mucosal gut microbiota signature in primary sclerosing cholangitis before and after liver transplantation

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
In this study of the gut mucosal microbiota in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), we found consistent microbiota features associated with PSC and recurrent PSC, PSC with inflammatory bowel disease and a persistent gut dysbiosis after liver transplantation Abstract Background and Aims Several characteristic features of the fecal microbiota have been ...
Mikal Jacob Hole, Kristin Kaasen Jørgensen, Kristian Holm, Peder R. Braadland, Malin Holm Meyer‐Myklestad, Asle Wilhelm Medhus, Dag Henrik Reikvam, Alexandra Götz, Krzysztof Grzyb, Kirsten Muri Boberg, Tom Hemming Karlsen, Martin Kummen, Johannes R. Hov   +12 more
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