Tag: hospital-acquired infections

A comparative analysis of electronic health record data shows that ignoring competing hospital events undermines standard Cox models, whereas logistic ...

Genomic and transcriptional analyses reveal that hospital-associated Klebsiella pneumoniae can evolve polymyxin B resistance and enhanced virulence inside patients without ...

A mixed-methods study at a Rwandan tertiary hospital revealed that only sixteen percent of surgical prophylaxis cases met all appropriateness ...

A Taiwanese decision-tree modeling study demonstrates that empirical ceftazidime-avibactam is cost-effective compared with meropenem for hospital-acquired urinary tract infections, offering ...

A comprehensive scoping review of 57 hospital studies indicates that infection prevention practices like catheterization and glove use are frequently ...

Whole-genome sequencing of clinical Acinetobacter baumannii from Lahore General Hospital revealed multidrug resistance genes, transposable elements, and integrated prophages within ...

A study of 218 carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates from a Thai tertiary care hospital revealed extensive resistance and frequent ...

A joint frailty model of recurrent ICU-acquired infections shows that treating death and discharge as competing terminal events, rather than ...

A study of 187 clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from four Iranian hospitals found Class 1 integrons in 39% and Class ...

A cross-sectional study at an Ethiopian specialized hospital found 78.4 percent of sampled medical equipment and surfaces contaminated with bacteria, ...

A retrospective cohort analysis of eight Madrid tertiary hospitals found that one value-based hospital had lower mortality, complications, infections and ...

A landmark meta-analysis of nearly 700 studies reveals that vancomycin-resistant E. faecium now infects roughly one in three isolates worldwide, ...

A systematic review in BMC Infectious Diseases finds hospital-acquired infections affect 15.72 percent of patients in included studies, with the ...

Molecular fingerprinting and mass spectrometry reveal that a single closely related multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii lineage dominated intensive care isolates at ...

Researchers in Valencia have developed a self-disinfecting cotton fabric that uses visible light to generate reactive oxygen, eliminating bacteria, fungi ...

A UMBC-led team has revealed that Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses a two-protein switch, BqsS and BqsR, to sense iron inside and ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications, researchers have unveiled how an opportunistic pathogen, Klebsiella pneumoniae, underwent parallel within-host ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of pediatric healthcare, understanding the nuances of microbial infections is critical. Enterococcus faecium, a notorious opportunistic ...

In a groundbreaking study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers have uncovered alarming new insights into the dynamics of Clostridium ...