A quasi-experimental hospital study found that replacing normal saline with 0.5 percent chlorhexidine gluconate for periurethral cleansing during catheter insertion ...
A recombinant trimeric crustin peptide expressed in the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii disrupts bacterial cell membranes and inhibits both Gram-positive and ...
Supervised machine learning algorithms successfully predicted synergistic combinations between antimicrobial peptides and conventional antimicrobial agents using fractional inhibitory concentration data.
A study in Benin tracked patients and caregivers and found carbapenem-resistant bacterial colonization rose sharply during hospitalization and continued to ...
A retrospective study of 260 intramedullary nailing patients in Ethiopia found an 8.46% implant-associated infection rate, with emergency surgery and ...
A laboratory study reports that magnesium oxide nanoparticles synthesised with turnip leaf extract inhibited multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and reduced established ...
A study of 103 wound swabs from five hospitals in Ibb City, Yemen, found very high antibiotic resistance among bacteria ...
Researchers have synthesized cephalosporin-based pronucleotides of AZT that are cleaved by bacterial β-lactamases, achieving a first modest proof of concept ...
New research shows that L-histidine resensitizes NDM-producing multidrug-resistant bacteria to carbapenems by directly inhibiting the enzyme and disrupting nickel homeostasis, ...
A scoping review of 24 studies finds that zinc oxide nanoparticles consistently enhance antibiotic activity against resistant bacteria, but warns ...
A retrospective study of 107 ICU catheter-associated urinary tract infection episodes found 65.1% in-hospital mortality and extensive carbapenem resistance among ...
A rare Klebsiella pneumoniae spinal epidural abscess in a diabetic Nepali patient with pulmonary tuberculosis mimicked tuberculous spondylodiscitis on imaging, ...
A four-month retrospective review of 1,495 blood cultures at Jenin Governmental Hospital found 152 positive cultures, with 59.9 percent of ...
A retrospective study of 208 patients with acute biliary infection found that polymicrobial bile infections were independently associated with SIRS, ...
A retrospective cohort of 200 patients at a Pakistani tertiary care centre found that 21% developed ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections, most ...
A retrospective cohort of 184 adults with malignancy found that low albumin around abscess diagnosis was associated with 90-day mortality, ...
A prospective Brazilian cohort of 100 infected limbs found shifting microbial patterns and irregular carbapenem resistance across WIfI stages, while ...
A multicentre cross-sectional study of 170 culture-positive diabetic foot infections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa found predominantly Gram-negative pathogens, substantial resistance, and ...
A new correspondence in BMC Infectious Diseases links the COVID-19 pandemic to a marked rise in antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections across ...
A retrospective cohort study of 152 glioblastoma patients found that culture-positive infections after radiotherapy, predominantly Gram-negative respiratory and urinary infections, ...
