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We identified 11 species of bacteria from masked booby (Sula dactylatra) and Christmas shearwater (Puffinus nativitatis); five species of gram-negative bacilli, four species of Streptococcus (Enterococcus), and 2 species of Staphylococcus. In addition, 6 types of bacteria were determined barely to t...
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PMID: 22017052
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We summarized available plasma pharmacokinetic data derived from neonates or children following intravenous administration of fosfomycin. Subsequently, we used this information for recalculation of different dosing strategies and simulated a variety of clinically applied dosing regimens. The percent...
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PMID: 21740073
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To evaluate treatment outcomes in patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) nosocomial infections treated with antimicrobial agent either alone or in combination.
Clinical data were retrospectively evaluated in patients with CRAB nosocomial inf...
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PMID: 21774295
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We studied drug susceptibility in 604 Salmonella enterica isolates from human feces in 2007. Of these, 39 (6.5%) were resistat to NA. Of these, 46% were resistant to two or more drugs and 2% susceptible to NA were resistant to multiple drugs (p...
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PMID: 21861438
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Our results show that P. aeruginosa strains became gradually resistant to all antibiotics used in the treatment of the infections caused by them, with the exception of amikacin and piperacillin/tazobactam....
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PMID: 21811750
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All-Ukrainian investigation of microflora sensitivity to antibacterial preparations in patients with intraabdominal infection (IAI) have included studying of microbial landscape of the abdominal cavity content in IAI, and the causing agents sensitivity to main antibacterial preparations was determine...
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PMID: 21847824
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We analysed the trends in the epidemiology of TB in children in London aged 0-14 years between 1999 and 2006.
Data were extracted from the Enhanced TB Surveillance System.
Between 1999 and 2006, there were 1370 cases of TB in children. Incidence was higher in older ch...
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PMID: 20587642
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I that produced three distinct patterns. These data indicate the high prevalence of enterotoxigenic S. aureus in raw bovine milk in Tehran and Mashhad, and highlight the importance of proper quality control of dairy products for public health....
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PMID: 21715281
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The study was done to determine the anti-tuberculosis drug resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in AIDS patients. Fifty antiretroviral drug naïve new AIDS patients with clinical evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis and no previous history of tuberculosis were recruited. Baseline CD4...
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PMID: 21706944
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We studied 49 cases of A. baumannii bacteremia in adult patients admitted to a university hospital in Northeast Thailand between 2005 and 2007. The incidence of MDR A. baumannii bacteremia was 3.6 episodes per 10,000 hospital admissions. Significantly independent factors associated with MDR A. bauma...
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PMID: 21706949
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Childhood tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a neglected disease in areas where limited resources restrict the focus of national TB control programmes to only the most infectious sputum smear-positive cases. However, appreciation that children contribute a significant proportion to the global TB disea...
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PMID: 21406050
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The global impact of the HIV epidemic on the prevention and management of tuberculosis has resulted in added levels of complexity for physicians and other health- care workers caring for these patients. In addition to the usual difficulties associated with drug toxicities and regimen adherence, the c...
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PMID: 21406051
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Abstract During a Escherichia coli O157 prevalence study on cattle farms, 324 E. coli O157 isolates were collected from 68 out of 180 cattle farms. All isolates harbored the eaeA gene and the enterohemolysin (ehxA) gene. The majority of the strains only contained vtx2 (245 isolates),...
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PMID: 21381926
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To analyze the efficacy of nebulized colistin in the microbiological eradication and clinical improvement of patients with pulmonary infection by multi-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MAB).
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PMID: 21396739
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Samples of pediatric patients suspected of tuberculosis and cared for at Hospital Piñero during the 2004-2008 period were analyzed according to epidemiological and clinical criteria. The bacteriological contribution was evaluated to confirm the disease diagnosis. A descriptive retrospective analysis...
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PMID: 21491065
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The objectives of this study were to determine drug resistance pattern in new and previously treated tuberculosis (TB) patients, to assess function of TB control program, and to characterize multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB) by molecular fingerprinting methods. Anti-microbial susceptib...
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PMID: 21338958
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This case report describes an outbreak of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in the intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital. Three patients were infected on the same day from an Ambu bag which was used on all the patients. The outbreak was immediately identified and the source was tr...
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PMID: 21419028
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This study characterized the antimicrobial susceptibility of 221 Staphylococcus aureus isolated from various species, and 60 canine Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolated from 1986 through 2000 at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM). Resistance of S. aureus was most common to penicill...
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PMID: 21532820
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We define the rate of pediatric MRSA carriage in the same population and characterize the associated bacterial genotypes by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing. A prospective cohort study of MRSA carriage conducted over one month at the Angkor Hospital for Children,...
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PMID: 21292906
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Nicholas J Croucher,
Simon R Harris,
Christophe Fraser,
Michael A Quail,
John Burton,
Mark van der Linden,
Lesley McGee,
Anne von Gottberg,
Jae Hoon Song,
Kwan Soo Ko,
Bruno Pichon,
Stephen Baker,
Christopher M Parry,
Lotte M Lambertsen,
Dea Shahinas,
Dylan R Pillai,
Timothy J Mitchell,
Gordon Dougan,
Alexander Tomasz,
Keith P Klugman,
Julian Parkhill,
William P Hanage and
Stephen D Bentley
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Epidemiological studies of the naturally transformable bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae have previously been confounded by high rates of recombination. Sequencing 240 isolates of the PMEN1 (Spain(23F)-1) multidrug-resistant lineage enabled base substitutions to be distingu...
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PMID: 21273480
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Klebsiella pneumoniae as a producer of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) has played an important role as a cause of infection in the neonatal high risk unit (NHRU) of the Autonomous Hospital Institute of the Universidad de Los Andes (AHIULA). In this paper an outbreak caused by this bacterial s...
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PMID: 21526282
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These results can inform management of canine patients and infection control procedures to mitigate the risk of clinical disease due to MDR bacteria in hospitalized dogs....
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PMID: 20392305
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We consider the years 2000-2009, 6.4% of isolated genotypes were found to be Salmonellae with the serologic profile 4,5,12:i:-, 35.8% of which were multiresistant. Molecular analyses have shown a correlation between Salmonellae 4,5,12:i:- and Salmonellae Typhimurium DT104. Further studies will be co...
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PMID: 21468150
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The new hybrid drugs combining in a single molecule triazine ring attached to phosphonium salt were prepared and their bactericidal activity against Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus ATCC43300 (MRSA - methycyline resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain) two Gram-negative bacteria Escherichi...
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PMID: 21648193
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Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium was isolated from diarrheic piglets in 2 periods, 2000-2001 (n = 25) and 2005-2006 (n = 17). To compare the characteristics of the isolates collected during the 2 periods, all isolates were tested for antimicrobial resistance, the presence of vi...
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PMID: 21461195
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Despite the adoption of strategies to prevent and treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) over the past decade, Latvia continues to have one of the highest rates of MDR-TB in the world. It is important to identify modifiable factors that may impact on MDR-TB patient outcomes. A study was con...
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PMID: 20429966
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Our data suggest that MIRU genotype 223325173533 of the Beijing family is associated with MDR and increased transmissibility....
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PMID: 20429968
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Drug resistance in tuberculosis is a growing global problem. The emergence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases, particularly in the 1990s, has become an important health problem and threatens tuberculosis control worldwide. Resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin, two of the most potent anti-tu...
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PMID: 21341173
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Our findings indicated that the rates of mono and multidrug resistant M.tuberculosis complex strains were significantly lower than the rates previously reported from our region and similar to the average country-base resistance rates reported by the Ministry of Health. Continuous monitoring of M.tub...
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PMID: 21341157
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Maryline Bonnet,
Manuela Pardini,
Francesca Meacci,
Germano Orrù,
Hasan Yesilkaya,
Thierry Jarosz,
Peter W Andrew,
Mike Barer,
Francesco Checchi,
Heinz Rinder,
Graziella Orefici,
Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes,
Lanfranco Fattorini,
Marco Rinaldo Oggioni,
Juliet Melzer,
Stefan Niemann and
Francis Varaine
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We combined drug susceptibility results and molecular strain typing data with treatment outcome reports to assess the influence of drug resistance on TB treatment outcomes in a prospective cohort of patients from Abkhazia (Georgia). Patients received individualized treatment regimens based on drug s...
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PMID: 21886778
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Multidrug resistance is a major problem in the treatment of infectious diseases caused by bacteria and fungi. One of the basic mechanisms of resistance is active efflux of distinct drugs from cells. Export of toxic compounds from bacterial cells is mediated by proteins of 5 distinct...
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PMID: 21502698
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Metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL)-producing Acinetobacter baumannii has become a growing therapeutic concern worldwide. The aims of this study were to evaluate the antimicrobial susceptibility of A. baumannii isolates and to determine the prevalence of MBL genes among carbapenem non-susceptible isolates....
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PMID: 21266761
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A Carbonne,
J M Thiolet,
S Fournier,
N Fortineau,
N Kassis-Chikhani,
I Boytchev,
M Aggoune,
J C Seguier,
H Senechal,
M P Tavolacci,
B Coignard,
P Astagneau and
V Jarlier
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An outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae type 2 was detected in September 2009 in two hospitals in a suburb south of Paris, France. In total, 13 KPC-producing K. pneumoniae type 2 cases (four with infections and nine with digestive-tract colonisations)...
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PMID: 21144448
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We formulated a management strategy including daily hydrotherapy, thermal radiation therapy, balanced fluid and electrolytes and intermittent transfusion of blood products, but antibiotics were not used. Twenty-four days after his hospitalization, an autologous split-meshed skin grafting was success...
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PMID: 21119334
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In the last few decades, resistance among Gram-positive microorganisms to classical antimicrobials as well as the emergence of resistance to new antimicrobials has been observed in our environment. Methicillin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci seems to have s...
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PMID: 21477699
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The Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) resistant against all kinds of beta-lactam antibiotics. Moreover, resistances against other antibiotics have gradually started to develop. In the last decades, MRSA started as a serious problem only in hosp...
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PMID: 21192484
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Infections in patients with cirrhosis are a common complication causing substantial morbidity and mortality. Bacterial translocation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of many infections in cirrhosis. In turn, infections are involved in the pathogenesis of many episodes of decompensated cirr...
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PMID: 20444525
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Diagnostic laboratory data on antimicrobial susceptibility of Escherichia coli isolated from feces of spring calves were evaluated retrospectively for the 5-year period from 1999 to 2003. The antimicrobials to which resistance was most prevalent were tetracycline, ampicillin, and trimethoprim/sulpham...
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PMID: 21286332
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I trauma intensive care unit patients with confirmed Acinetobacter baumannii infection were defined as cases.
Thirty-one Acinetobacter baumannii patients were matched to 62 controls with evidence of infection caused by other microorganisms.
There were 12 matching criteria, including focus of infecti...
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PMID: 20802326
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Altogether 118 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from urine of patients with urinary tract infection were tested by the disk diffusion method for susceptibility to ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, gentamicin, amikacin, colistin, meropenem, imipenem, piperacillin/tazobactam and ceftazidime. All strain...
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PMID: 21114003
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We report a clinical isolate of Enterococcus faecium in which three distinct and excision-proficient copies of Tn916-like elements are present in the genome. All of the elements contain tet(M) genes, at least one of which confers resistance to tetracycline and minocycline. Two elements (Tn6085a, Tn6...
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PMID: 20600284
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Eric E Ramos,
Samuel G SG Schumacher,
Mark M Siedner,
Beatriz B Herrera,
Willi W Quino,
Jessica J Alvarado,
Rosario R Montoya,
Louis L Grandjean,
Laura L Martin,
Jonathan M JM Sherman,
Robert H RH Gilman and
Carlton A CA Evans
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Optimal tuberculosis testing usually involves sputum centrifugation followed by broth culture. However, centrifuges are biohazardous and scarce in the resource-limited settings where most tuberculosis occurs. To optimize tuberculosis testing for these settings, centrifugation of 111 decontaminated sp...
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PMID: 20889887
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This review aims to identify and highlight important data published in the past 12 months which provide new information on nontyphoidal salmonellosis in Africa.
Recent reviews and clinical studies continue to emphasize the challenges of diagnosis and management of invasive nontyphoidal Salmonellae (...
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PMID: 20736739
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We analyzed Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 132 new TB cases of treatment-naïve patients in Goiás, Brazil by drug susceptibility tests, partial sequencing of the rpoB and katG genes, inhA(C-15T) mutation analysis by PCR, and RFLP-IS6110 genotyping. A high frequency of drug resistance was...
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PMID: 20619356
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To report a case of recurrent Stenotrophomonas maltophilia ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) that was successfully treated with doxycycline and aerosolized colistin.
A 28-year-old male was admitted with a severe head injury and required mechanical ventilation. The patient developed S. maltophili...
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PMID: 20736426
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We believe that the fabrication of W-NPs on catheters could possibly prevent them from being contaminated by pathogens and hence provide continuous protection of the site. This study is the first of its type testing the antibacterial effects of W-NPs on clinical bacterial isolate from catheterized h...
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PMID: 21213591
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The aim of this work was to analyze several clones of Helicobacter pylori isolated from a patient with gastric cancer, to evaluate i) genetic variability ii) virulence factors profile and iii) antimicrobial susceptibility against the drugs commonly used in the H. pylori therapy. A total of 32 H. pyl...
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PMID: 21213593
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Our results suggests that (1) species identification and virulence typing of Enterococcus spp. isolates are not useful for the identification of the host groups responsible for fecal contamination of water by microbial source tracking and that (2) antibiotic use for clinical, veterinary, or animal h...
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PMID: 20921982
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