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When good bugs go bad: Epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Corynebacterium striatum, an emerging multidrug-resistant, opportunistic pathogen [PDF]

, 2017
Infections with Corynebacterium striatum have been described in the literature over the last 2 decades, with the majority being bacteremia, central line infections, and occasionally, endocarditis.
Anderson, Neil, Burnham, Carey-Ann D, McMullen, Allison R, Shupe, Angela, Wallace, Meghan A   +4 more
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Near-ubiquitous presence of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117/CT71/vanB –clone in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area of Germany

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2019
Whole-genome sequencing analysis of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from the Frankfurt metropolitan region revealed that 78/94 isolates were MLST type ST117, cgMLST complex type CT71 with a common vanB chromosomal insertion site.
Linda Falgenhauer, Moritz Fritzenwanker, Can Imirzalioglu, Katrin Steul, Marlene Scherer, Rhine-Main VREfm study group, Ursel Heudorf, Trinad Chakraborty   +7 more
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Review of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB: global perspectives with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2010
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global emergency and is responsible for 1.7 million deaths annually. Widespread global misuse of isoniazid and rifampicin over three decades has resulted in emergence of the ominous spread of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB ...
Abdool Karim, Amor, Balabanova, Caminero, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chan, Chiang, Chiang, Chiang, Churchyard, Dheda, Dravniece, Dubrovina, Elliott, Espinal, Espinal, Espinal, Flament-Saillour, Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi, Goble, Grobusch, Habeenzu, Hoek, Holtz, Holtz, Iseman, Johnson, Kehinde, Kim, Kingkaew, Korenromp, Kranzer, Lalloo, Laserson, Lienhardt, Ma, Martin, Matteelli, Meskel, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Migliori, Moore, Motus, O’Donnell, Pablos-Méndez, Pai, Park, Pietzka, Pillay, Quy, Saravia, Schaaf, Schaaf, Shah, Somocurcio, Sonnenberg, Sotgiu, Torun, Umubyeyi, Wallis, WHO, WHO, WHO and IUATLD, Wright, Wright, Zumla   +70 more
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Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis--Current Dilemmas, Unanswered Questions, Challenges and Priority Needs [PDF]

, 2012
Tuberculosis was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Following the declaration and the promotion in 1995 of directly observed treatment short course (DOTS), a cost-effective strategy to contain the tuberculosis ...
Abubakar, Ibrahim, Atun, Rifat, Chakaya, Jeremiah, Cox, Helen, Ditiu, Lucica, Ford, Nathan, Grobusch, Martin, Hoelscher, Michael, Lawn, Stephen D., Maeurer, Markus, Marais, Ben, Mchugh, Timothy D., McNerney, Ruth, Memish, Ziad, Migliori, Giovanni-Battista, Mwaba, Peter, O'Grady, Justin, Pletschette, Michel, Ramsay, Andrew, Raviglione, Mario, Schito, Marco, Squire, S. Bertel, Swaminathan, Soumya, Zumla, Alimuddin   +23 more
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Estimation of Reserves for Improving the Results of Patients with Multipresistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Application of Surgical Methods Based on Analysis of the Efficiency of Conservative Treatment of a Specified Cohort [PDF]

, 2018
In order to improve the results of treatment of patients with multi-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis with the use of surgical methods, the effectiveness estimation of conservative treatment of 176 patients with this form of tuberculosis according to ...
Ivashchenko, V. (Vladimir), Kalabukha, I. (Igor), Khmel, O. (Oleg)   +2 more
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Detecting, mapping, and suppressing the spread of a decade-long Pseudomonas aeruginosa nosocomial outbreak with genomics

eLife
Whole-genome sequencing is revolutionizing bacterial outbreak investigation, but its application to the clinic remains limited. In 2020, prospective and retrospective surveillance detected a Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak with 253 isolates collected ...
William Stribling, Lindsey R Hall, Aubrey Powell, Casey Harless, Melissa J Martin, Brendan W Corey, Erik Snesrud, Ana Ong, Rosslyn Maybank, Jason Stam, Katelyn V Bartlett, Brendan T Jones, Lan N Preston, Katherine F Lane, Bernadette Thompson, Lynn M Young, Yoon I Kwak, Alice E Barsoumian, Ana Elizabeth Markelz, John L Kiley, Robert J Cybulski, Jason W Bennett, Patrick T Mc Gann, Francois Lebreton   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

High genetic relatedness between multidrug resistant bacteria before and after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine

Genome Medicine
Background The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has placed extraordinary pressure on hospitals there. One consequence of this has been the alarming increase in infections caused by multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs), both within Ukraine and among ...
Francois Lebreton, Viacheslav Kondratiuk, Valentyn Kovalchuk, Niels Pfennigwerth, Ting L. Luo, Brendan T. Jones, Nadiia Fomina, Frieder Fuchs, Jörg B. Hans, Jessica Eisfeld, Ana Ong, Sören Gatermann, Jason W. Bennett, Patrick Mc Gann   +13 more
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Does antibiotic prophylaxis for dental treatment prevent periprosthetic infections?

GMS Infectious Diseases
Background: The German Society for Arthroplasty (AE) recommends a single dose of 2,000 mg amoxicillin as an antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) in patients with total hip or knee arthroplasty (THA, TKA) who undergo ...
Ursel Heudorf, Rolf Tessmann, Klaus-Peter Hunfeld   +2 more
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IS26-Mediated Transfer of blaNDM–1 as the Main Route of Resistance Transmission During a Polyclonal, Multispecies Outbreak in a German Hospital

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
One of the most demanding challenges in infection control is the worldwide dissemination of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria in clinical settings. Especially the increasing prevalence of carbapenemase producing Gram-negative pathogens poses an urgent ...
Robert E. Weber, Michael Pietsch, Andre Frühauf, Yvonne Pfeifer, Maria Martin, Dirk Luft, Sören Gatermann, Niels Pfennigwerth, Martin Kaase, Guido Werner, Stephan Fuchs   +10 more
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Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Colonization and Infections in Large Retrospective Cohort of Mechanically Ventilated COVID-19 Patients

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
Few data are available on incidence of multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) colonization and infections in mechanically ventilated patients, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Davide Mangioni, Liliane Chatenoud, Jacopo Colombo, Emanuele Palomba, Fernando A. Guerrero, Matteo Bolis, Nicola Bottino, Giuseppe Breda, Maria V. Chiaruttini, Gabriele Fior, Manuela Marotta, Giovanni Massobrio, Caterina Matinato, Antonio Muscatello, Paola Previtali, Sara Santambrogio, Francesca Tardini, Gianluca Zuglian, Giacomo Grasselli, Roberto Fumagalli, Andrea Gori, Nino Stocchetti, Gianpaola Monti, Alessandra Bandera   +23 more
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