Epidemiology of infections acquired in intensive care units

JS Doyle, KL Buising, KA Thursky… - … in respiratory and …, 2011 - thieme-connect.com
Infections acquired in the intensive care unit (ICU) are associated with significant morbidity
and mortality. Using surveillance data collected in the United States and internationally, we …

Combined therapy for multi-drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection – is there evidence outside the laboratory?

FF Tuon, JL Rocha, AB Merlini - Journal of medical …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Acinetobacter are among the most common bacteria isolated in hospital infections,
especially in developing countries. Multi-drug, extended-drug or pan-drug resistance makes …

[HTML][HTML] Natural defense against multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Cassia occidentalis L. in vitro and in silico antibacterial activity

RR Imon, MEK Talukder, S Akhter, MS Islam… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cassia occidentalis L. is widely used in indigenous and traditional medicine, but its impact
on multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections mostly remains unknown. Therefore, this …

[HTML][HTML] Avaliação de fatores determinantes do tempo de internação em clínica médica

GP Rufino, MG Gurgel, TC Pontes… - Rev. Soc. Bras. Clín …, 2012 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
OBJETIVOS: A qualidade da assistência à saúde é prejudicada diante do longo tempo de
permanência hospitalar, relacionado às características e à procedência do paciente. O …

Multidrug resistant acinetobacter infection and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in a nigerian tertiary hospital ICU.

VU Nwadike, CK Ojide, EI Kalu - African journal of infectious diseases, 2014 - ajol.info
Background: Acinetobacter baumannii, a non-glucose fermenting Gram negative bacillus,
has emerged in the last three decades as a major etiological agent of hospital-associated …

Molecular epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in University clinical center of Kosovo

G Lila, G Mulliqi, L Raka, A Kurti… - Infection and drug …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important opportunistic pathogen. It is
frequently resistant to many commonly used antibiotics and develops easily resistant forms …

[PDF][PDF] The prevalence and resistance patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a tertiary care hospital in Kosovo

G Lila, G Mulliqi-Osmani, R Bajrami, A Kurti, E Azizi… - Infez Med, 2017 - infezmed.it
SUMMARY non-ICU (p< 0.05). P. aeruginosa isolates were most frequently isolated from the
respiratory tract (323, 58.4%). The rate of resistance against most of the tested antimicrobials …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular Epidemiology of Multi-Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Isolated in Shandong, China

M Jiang, L Liu, Y Ma, Z Zhang, N Li, F Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging nosocomial pathogen prevalent in hospitals
worldwide. In order to understand the molecular epidemiology of multi-drug resistant (MDR) …

Analysis of hospital departmental distribution and antibiotic susceptibility of Acinetobacter isolated from sputum samples

W Zheng, S Yuan, L Li - American journal of infection control, 2013 - Elsevier
The current study investigated Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from sputum specimens.
Compared with previous studies, we found that A baumannii was drug resistant to 14 …

High carbapenem resistance caused by VIM and NDM enzymes and OprD alteration in nonfermenter bacteria isolated from a Libyan hospital

K Slimene, AA El Salabi, O Dziri, A Mabrouk… - Microbial Drug …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are among the most prevalent
pathogens causing a wide range of serious infections in hospitalized patients and …