Among 140 patients colonized by KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) between fourth and seventh day of Intensive Care Unit stay, 24 developed bacteraemia immediately after colonization. Colistin-resistance of the colonizing isolate was the factor significantly associated with early KPC-Kp bacteraemia (P < 0.001; OR 6.6, 95% CI 2.4-18.4), a worrisome finding since infections by colistin-...

Context. A systematic estimation of the line of sight depth in the disk and bar regions of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) using red clump stars is presented. Aims. We used the red clump stars from the photometric data of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE II) survey and the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey (MCPS) for both the Clouds to estimate the depth....

To the Editor: Until a few years ago, the most frequent microbiologi-cally documented cause of severe bloodstream infections among patients with hematologic malignancies was gram-positive bacteria (1). However , over the years, gram-negative bacteria have become the main infectious cause of death among patients with hematologic malignancies, and rates of different phenotypes associated with ant...

Aims. We challenge the accepted distance of 3.2 kpc of GRO J1655-40. We present VLT-UVES spectroscopic observations to estimate the absorption toward the source, and determine a maximum distance of GRO J1655-40. Methods. We show that the accepted value of 3.2 kpc is taken for granted by many authors. We retrieved in the ESO archive UVES spectra taken in April 2004 when GRO J1655-40 was in quies...

In this study, the performance of the chromogenic medium CHROMagar™ KPC was evaluated and was compared with in-house-daily prepared McConkey agar plates supplemented with imipenem (1 mg/L) for the detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. In this surveillance study, rectal swabs were cultured on both media and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for bla(KPC) and bla(VIM) was used to ...

We present a new 12CO(J=1–0)–line survey of the Andromeda galaxy, M 31, with the highest resolution to date (23, or 85 pc along the major axis), observed On-the-Fly with the IRAM 30-m telescope. We mapped an area of about 2 ×0. 5 which was tightly sampled on a grid of 9 with a velocity resolution of 2.6 km s−1. The r.m.s. noise in the velocity-integrated map is around 0.35 K km s−1 on the Tmb-s...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to explore the activity of ceftazidime and ceftazidime/avibactam against a collection of isogenic strains of Escherichia coli DH10B possessing SHV and KPC β-lactamases containing single amino acid substitutions in the Ω-loop (residues 164-179). METHODS Ceftazidime and ceftazidime/avibactam MICs were determined by the agar dilution method for a panel ...