Treatment of infectious diseases becomes more challenging with each passing year. This is
especially true for infections caused by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas …

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most serious public health issues facing humans since
the discovery of antimicrobial agents. The frequent, prolonged, and uncontrolled use of …

ABSTRACT The Infectious Diseases Society of America advocates trimethoprim-
sulfamethoxazole (SXT) as initial therapy for females with acute uncomplicated bacterial …

Severe sepsis and septic shock are as common and lethal as other acute life-threatening
conditions that emergency physicians routinely confront such as acute myocardial infarction …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii are the most prevalent
nonfermentative bacterial species isolated from clinical specimens of hospitalized patients …

Background Cardiac examination is an essential aspect of the physical examination.
Previous studies have shown poor diagnostic accuracy, but most used audio recordings …

Objectives Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia), an opportunistic pathogen,
causes infection in patients undergoing immunosuppressive therapy, mechanical …

Pathogenic bacteria have increasingly been resisting to antimicrobial therapy. Recently,
resistance problem has been relatively much worsened in Gram-negative bacilli …

We assessed resistance rates and trends for important antimicrobial-resistant pathogens
(oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [ORSA], vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus …

Levofloxacin (Levaquin®) is a fluoroquinolone antibacterial agent with a broad spectrum of
activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and atypical respiratory …