Can we beat MRSA now we know its genome sequence?

N Woodford, DM Livermore - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2001 - thelancet.com
Enterococcus faecium genome was established in “one day's concentrated effort”, 1 albeit
without identification of genes, probable genes, or sequence annotation. Frequent …

Heteroresistance to cefepime–taniborbactam in metallo-β-lactamase-encoding Enterobacterales

C Abbott, SW Satola, DS Weiss - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2023 - thelancet.com
We read with great interest the Correspondence by Christophe Le Terrier and colleagues1
regarding NDM-9-mediated resistance to cefepime–taniborbactam in an engineered …

Overconsumption of antibiotics

A Ghafur - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015 - thelancet.com
It is with great interest that I read the Article by Thomas Van Boeckel and colleagues, 1
reporting global antibiotic consumption. It is quite concerning that two-thirds of the increase …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of a ST2570 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate carrying mcr-1 and blaCTX-M-14 recovered from a bloodstream infection in China

Z Ruan, Q Sun, H Jia, C Huang… - Clinical …, 2019 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
The worldwide emergence of the plasmid-borne colistin resistance mediated by mcr-1 gene
not only extended our knowledge on colistin resistance, but also poses a serious threat to …

Role of multidrug-resistant pathogens in health-care-associated pneumonia

M Falcone, M Venditti, S Corrao… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2011 - thelancet.com
We read with interest Santiago Ewig and colleagues' article1 discussing the validity of a new
classification scheme for pneumonia, including for health-care-associated pneumonia …

[HTML][HTML] Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacter cloacae isolates producing KPC-3, North Dakota, USA

LM Kiedrowski, DM Guerrero, F Perez… - Emerging Infectious …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2. Chen E, Chen Y, Fu L, Chen Z, Gong Z, Mao H, et al. Human infection with avian influenza
A (H7N9) virus re-emerges in China in winter 2013. Euro Surveill. 2013; 18. pii: 20616. 3 …

[HTML][HTML] The Mini-Lab: accessible clinical bacteriology for low-resource settings

A Natale, JB Ronat, A Mazoyer, A Rochard… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Antimicrobial resistance represents a threat to global health-care systems. Low-resource
settings especially struggle to diagnose and effectively treat bacterial path ogens. 1 In 2015 …

The real threat of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing bacteria

P Nordmann, G Cuzon, T Naas - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2009 - thelancet.com
From early this decade, Enterobacteriaceae that produce Klebsiella pneumoniae
carbapenemases (KPC) were reported in the USA and subsequently worldwide. These KPC …

[引用][C] Investigation of a plasmid genome database for colistin-resistance gene mcr-1

S Suzuki, M Ohnishi, M Kawanishi, M Akiba… - The Lancet infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Yi-Yun Liu and colleagues1 reported the first plasmid-mediated polymixin resistance gene,
mcr-1, in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from human clinical isolates, retail meat, and food …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome sequencing unveils the outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in mainland China

Y Chen, X Li, Y Fu, Y Yu, H Zhou - The Lancet Microbe, 2024 - thelancet.com
The Comment published in The Lancet Microbe by Patrick M Meyer Sauteur and
colleagues1 caught our attention for its discussion on the delayed resurgence of …