This retrospective study evaluated trends and association between resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from patients with hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and hospital antimicrobial usage from 2003 through 2011 in a tertiary care hospital in northeast China. HAI was defined as occurrence of infection after hospital admission, without evidence that infection was present or incubating...

seaweeds have caused an emerging interest in the biomedical area, mainly due to their contents of bioactive substances which show great potential as anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-viral and anti-tumoral drugs. despite the diversity in quality and quantity of the mediterranean tunisian coast flora, with its large contains of marine organisms and seaweeds, most of them have not yet been ...

Background. Empiric antimicrobials for critically-ill patients routinely include combination therapy for patients at risk for infection from P. aeruginosa. In 2013, in vitro susceptibility to anti-pseudomonal beta-lactams, ciprofloxacin and tobramycin among ICU isolates at of P. aeruginosa was < 85%, 70% and >90%, respectively. This prompted the question of whether an aminoglycoside should rout...

Methods We retrospectively included all ICU episodes in Ghent University Hospital during 2013 and 2014 with prescription of meropenem, piperacillin-tazobactam or ceftazidime for at least 48 hours, stratifying between ICU episodes of < and ≥4 days; for outcome analysis, only the first ≥4 days episode per patient was included. Deescalation was defined as a change from meropenem to a non-carbapene...

Antimicrobial resistance to nine anti-pseudomonal agents (azteronam, ceftazidime, cefepime, piperacillin/tazobactam, imipenem, meropenem, ciprofloxacin, amikacin and gentamicin), the magnitude of multidrug resistance, associated underlying conditions, and mortality among patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 2001 to 2005 we...

Within the vasculature, uncontrolled pericellular proteolysis can lead to disruption of cell-to-cell and cell-to-matrix interactions and subsequent detachment-induced cell apoptosis, or anoikis, contributing to inflammatory vascular diseases, with the endothelium as the major target. Most studies so far have focused on endogenous proteinases. However, during bloodstream infections, bacterial pr...