Therapy of invasive infections due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (MDR-E) is
challenging, and some of the few active drugs are not available in many countries. For …

The burden of multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) now represents a daily
issue for the management of antimicrobial therapy in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. In …

Importance Extended-spectrum β-lactamases mediate resistance to third-generation
cephalosporins (eg, ceftriaxone) inEscherichia coliandKlebsiella pneumoniae. Significant …

Purpose To provide an updated joint ASCO/Infectious Diseases Society of American (IDSA)
guideline on outpatient management of fever and neutropenia in patients with cancer …

Resistance of the Enterobacteriaceae to antibiotics, especially of the β lactam type, is
increasingly dominated by the mobilization of continuously expressed single genes that …

Escherichia coli is one of the most-studied microorganisms worldwide but its characteristics
are continually changing. Extraintestinal E. coli infections, such as urinary tract infections …

A new phenotypic test, called the Carbapenem Inactivation Method (CIM), was developed to
detect carbapenemase activity in Gram-negative rods within eight hours. This method …

In the last 10 years, extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing enterobacteria (ESBL-E)
have become one of the main challenges for antibiotic treatment of enterobacterial …

Infections caused by resistant gram‐negative bacteria are becoming increasingly prevalent
and now constitute a serious threat to public health worldwide because they are difficult to …

With the aim of gathering temporal trends on bacterial epidemiology and resistance from
multiple laboratories in China, the CHINET surveillance system was organized in 2005 …