BMJ13d
Reducing antibiotic treatment duration for ventilator-associated pneumonia (REGARD-VAP): a trial protocol for a randomised clinical trial
Using short-course antibiotics to treat VAP caused by Gram-negative non-fermenting bacteria has been ... This may be collected either via the endotracheal tube or bronchoalveolar lavage as ordered by ...
Medscape2d
Epidemiology and Genetics of VIM-type Metallo-β-lactamases in Gram-negative Bacilli
† VIMs are made up of 266 amino acid residues with the exception of VIM-7 (265 residues) and VIM-18 (262 residues). VIM-21, -22 and -27 have been assigned in the Lahey Clinic [201], but there ...
Medscape26d
Is Double Coverage of Gram-negative Organisms Necessary?
Results from studies that evaluate combination therapy versus monotherapy for gram-negative bacilli conflict with the common practice of use of double coverage. Strong evidence to support the ...
The New England Journal of Medicine12d
Clinical and Bacteriologic Studies of the Effect of Massive Doses of Penicillin G on Infections Caused by Gram-Negative Bacilli
Nine species (240 strains) of gram-negative bacilli were studied; 221 were freshly isolated from the urinary and intestinal tracts, wounds and abscesses. Thirteen strains of salmonella and 6 of ...
Science Daily4d
Blood test eases diagnosis of invasive mold disease
A new blood test is designed to find mold infections deep inside the body, sparing patients from tissue biopsies.
Nature4d
A lack of drugs for antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria
Three of these six pathogens are antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Recently, antibacterial drugs against ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria accounted for ∼15% (2 out of 13 ...
Deccan Chronicle24d
Gram Sabhas to Identify Beneficiaries for Welfare Schemes in Telangana
Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and other ministers urged all eligible individuals to apply for ration cards and Indiramma houses, even as the gram sabhas to identify ...
Investopedia13d
How Negative Interest Rates Work
Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. The idea of ...
BMJ13d
Incidence and aetiology of infant Gram-negative bacteraemia and meningitis: systematic review and meta-analysis
Background One in six infant deaths worldwide are caused by invasive bacterial infections, of which a substantial but unquantified proportion are caused by Gram-negative bacteria. Methods We conducted ...
thorax.bmj6d
Respiratory viruses in bronchoalveolar lavage: a hospital-based cohort study in adults
Methods: 299 adult patients who underwent bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) procedures were enrolled in a hospital-based prospective cohort study. Descriptive epidemiology is presented of 17 different ...
Frontiers13d
Thymine Sensitizes Gram-Negative Pathogens to Antibiotic Killing
To that end, we investigated the effect of five nucleotides on the bactericidal activity of antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria. Consequently, we find that thymine could potentiate multiple ...