Cytokine storm generates during various systemic acute infections, including sepsis and
current pandemic called COVID-19 (severe) causing devastating inflammatory conditions …

Thermal spraying has been present for over a century, being greatly refined and optimized
during this time. It has become nowadays a reliable and cost-efficient method to deposit …

Background The sepsis burden on acute care services in middle-income countries is a
cause for concern. We estimated incidence, prevalence, and mortality of sepsis in adult …

Since its discovery in England and France in 1986, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus has
increasingly become a major nosocomial pathogen worldwide. Enterococci are prolific …

Background: We report the results of International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium
(INICC) surveillance study from January 2010-December 2015 in 703 intensive care units …

Little is known about the excess mortality caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial
infection in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). We retrospectively obtained …

Background Central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a major problem
in intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide. We aimed to quantify the effectiveness of central …

Sepsis is a common and lethal syndrome: although outcomes have improved, mortality
remains high. No specific anti-sepsis treatments exist; as such, management of patients …

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a usually harmless commensal bacterium highly abundant
on the human skin. Under defined predisposing conditions, most importantly implantation of …

Microbial cause of ICU-acquired pneumonia: hospital-acquired... : Current Opinion in Critical
Care Microbial cause of ICU-acquired pneumonia: hospital-acquired pneumonia versus …