aClinic of Respiratory Medicine and Pulmonary Cell Research, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland bDivision of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, ...

This makes it more absorbent. Its peptidoglycan layer is much thicker than the peptidoglycan layer on gram-negative bacilli. Gram-positive bacilli are shaped like rods. They can also be ...

Gram stains of the specimen from bronchoalveolar lavage showed light polymorphonuclear cells without bacteria. Mycobacterial stains were negative, and fungal stains showed yeast-like elements ...

Legionella are aerobic gram-negative bacilli that live in association ... “Our patient’s urinary antigen testing was positive, yet his bronchoalveolar lavage culture was ultimately negative for ...

Establish the susceptibility pattern of Gram-negative bacteria causing infections in ICU patients, MYSTIC Program Brazil 2003. Gram-negative bacteria (n = 1,550) causing nosocomial infections were ...

Many patients have upper airway colonization with pathogenic bacteria, and the leading organisms associated with HAP are enteric gram-negative bacilli ... 20 to 150 mL of lavage fluid.

Gram-negative bacilli, atypical bacteria (C pneumoniae, L pneumophila and M pneumoniae), and many of the most common respiratory viruses (e.g., adenoviruses, coronaviruses, influenza viruses ...

known as gram-positive and gram-negative. These categories reflect big differences in the microbes' biology, and they also dictate how doctors treat bacterial infections. But what are the ...

Hergenrother and colleagues report on their development in Nature. Their paper is titled “A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome.” Infections caused by Gram ...

A team led by Paul Hergenrother at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has discovered a new antibiotic that exclusively targets gram-negative bacteria and avoids wiping out the ecosystem ...