background and objective: urinary tract infection (utis) is one of the most common diagnosed infectious diseases. in order to determine the spectrum of bacterial etiology and antibiotic resistance pattern of the uropathogens that cause community acquired uti, a retrospective study was performed in research center of reference laboratories of iran on urine samples of referred patients during a 4...

background: the rate of nosocomial infection appears to depend on whether it is calculated using the center for disease control (cdc) or carrier state criteria. the objective of this study was to differentiate between primary endogenous (pe), secondary endogenous (se) and exogenous (ex) infections, and to compare this classification with cdc criteria for nosocomial infections. methods: children...

Ceftaroline is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia, including cases with concurrent bacteremia. Use for serious methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections has risen for a multitude of reasons. The aim of this article is to review the literature evaluating clinical outcom...