Infections due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae have become major international
public health problem due to the inadequate treatment options and the historically lagged …

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major problems in current practical medicine. The
spread of genes coding for resistance determinants among bacteria challenges the use of …

New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) is a metallo-β-lactamase able to hydrolyze almost all
β-lactams. Twenty-four NDM variants have been identified in> 60 species of 11 bacterial …

This chapter analyzes the epidemiology of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
(CRE) as well as current and future treatment options against the increasingly resistant …

Surveillance studies have shown that OXA-48-like carbapenemases are the most common
carbapenemases in Enterobacterales in certain regions of the world and are being …

Bacterial drug resistance has become a global public health threat, among which the
infection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) is one of the top noticeable …

The rapid spread of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative organisms constitutes one of the
greatest challenges to global health. While Gram-negative organisms have developed …

Carbapenem‐resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have been listed by the WHO as high‐
priority pathogens owing to their high association with mortalities and morbidities …

From a home-based pregnancy self-testing kit, lateral flow assays (LFAs) have proliferated
and gained widespread utilization as point-of-care (POC) test kits. Their prevalence is due to …

Multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales (MDRE) are an emerging threat to global health,
leading to rising health care costs, morbidity and mortality. Multidrug-resistance is commonly …