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Characterization of post-surgical critical patients with infections associated with healthcare after prolonged perfusion of remifentanil

SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Healthcare associated infections (HAI) are the most frequent complication of hospitalized patients. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of critically ill post-surgical patients with a diagnosis of healthcare associated infections, ...

Tailoring antimicrobials in febrile neutropenia: using faster diagnostic and communication tools to improve treatment in the era of extensively resistant pathogens

Braz. j. infect. dis; 22 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Febrile Neutropenia represents a medical emergency and the use of appropriate antimicrobial therapy is essential for a better outcome. Although being time-consuming, conventional cultures and antimicrobial susceptibility tests remain the golden standard practices for microbiology identification....

Fatal case of donor-derived colistin-resistant carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae transmission in cardiac transplantation

Braz. j. infect. dis; 22 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Herein we report a fatal case of donor-derived transmission of XDR-resistant carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) in cardiac transplantation. A 59-year-old male patient with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy underwent heart transplantation. On day 5 post-operation, bl...

Intereactions between doripenem and clavulanate — Application of minimal inhibitory concentration analysis and cytometry flow for bactericidal studies

Background: In view of the current low efficacy of bacterial infection treatment the common trend towards searching for antibiotic systems exhibiting synergistic action is well justified. Among carbapenem analogues a particularly interesting option is provided by combinations of clavulanic acid with mero...

Resistencia plasmídica a colistin por el gen mcr-1 en Enterobacteriaceae en Paraguay

La resistencia a las polimixinas mediada por plásmidos (gen mcr-1) representa una amenaza para la salud pública, puesto que colistina es utilizada en la práctica médica como una de las últimas alternativas para el tratamiento de gérmenes multiresistentes. Este estudio describe la circulaciónde cep...

Characterization of Klebsiella pneumoniae associated with cattle infections in southwest China using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), antibiotic resistance and virulence-associated gene profile analysis

Braz. j. microbiol; 49 (supl.1), 2018
Abstract Klebsiella pneumoniae is important human and animal pathogen that causes a wide spectrum of infections. In this study, isolates from cattle nasal swabs samples were identified by 16S rRNA, and to evaluate the antimicrobial susceptibility, virulence gene carrying levels, and multilocus sequence t...

Klebsiella pneumoniae productora de carbapenemasas en Perú: reporte de caso y discusión de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos

Medwave; 18 (2), 2018
Las carbapenemasas son uno de los mecanismos enzimáticos de resistencia antimicrobiana, que compromete la mayor parte de los antibióticos betalactámicos. Por lo general, su producción se debe al uso indiscriminado de antimicrobianos. A nivel mundial, la expansión de este mecanismo de resistencia es ...