Bacterial Infections
The application of biofilm science to the study and control of chronic bacterial infections
... chronic bacterial diseases using biofilm ...ic bacterial infections grow in biofilms, it seems useful to survey this large number of infections for new insights in terms of this new ...
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Pharmacological inhibition of quorum sensing for the treatment of chronic bacterial infections
... is bacterial cell- to-cell ...of bacterial infections in ...aeruginosa infections in animal models is of considerable impor- tance, since it demonstrates that quorum sensing is a use- ful and ...
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Molecular Diagnostics of Medically Important Bacterial Infections
... The last ten years of the twentieth century allowed for an exponential increase in the knowledge of techniques in molecular biology, following the cellular and protein era of the 1970s and 1980s. This explosion of ...
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Performance of the Modified Boston and Philadelphia Criteria for Invasive Bacterial Infections
... of bacterial infections in young febrile ...serious bacterial infections (SBIs), including bacteremia, bacterial meningitis, and urinary tract infection ...invasive bacterial ...
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Bacteriophage therapy to combat bacterial infections in poultry
... treating bacterial infections in dermatology, stomatology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, gynaecology, paediatrics, gastroenter- ology, urology and pulmonology ...treating infections in humans has ...
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Procalcitonin in Young Febrile Infants for the Detection of Serious Bacterial Infections
... localized bacterial in- fection (n ⫽ 80, including lower tract UTI and bacterial diarrhea), and invasive bacterial infection (n ⫽ 150, including meningitis, bacteremia, pyelonephritis deter- mined ...
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Laboratory Diagnosis of Nosocomial Bacterial Infections Using Standard Methods
... of bacterial infections reduce nosocomial infections and cost of ...evaluate bacterial cultures and antibiotic sensitivity tests in some hospital laboratories, and compare their results with ...
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Transfusion-transmitted malaria and bacterial infections in a malaria endemic region
... transmissible infections can have untoward ...these infections can cause significant morbidity and mortality to transfusion ...transfusion-transmitted infections (TTI) leading to rejection of a large ...
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Serious Bacterial Infections in Neonates Presenting Afebrile With History of Fever
... serious bacterial infections (SBIs; urinary tract infection [UTI], bacteremia, and bacterial meningitis) in febrile neonates are as high as ...invasive bacterial infection (IBI; bacteremia and ...
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Studies on phagocytosis in patients with acute bacterial infections
... elevation in EIgG phagocytosis, which fell to normal levels by day 4, concomitantly with increased O2. generation and clinical improvement. Phagocytosis remained elevated in the third patient who did not clear his ...
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Whole-genome sequencing targets drug-resistant bacterial infections
... During the past two decades, the technological progress of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) had changed the fields of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, and, currently, is changing the underlying principles, ...
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Incidence of reactive thrombocytosis in serious bacterial infections in children aged two months to twelve years and its usefulness as a predictor of serious bacterial infections
... However, majority of the cases had only mild RT. It was noticed that clinical parameters like heart rate, temperature, respiratory rate did not have a statistically significant association with reactive thrombocytosis ...
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Neonatal Bacterial Infections in Parakou in 2013
... Neonatal bacterial infections are a leading cause of mortality in developing countries, including ...neonatal bacterial infections and their outcomes in the neonatal care unit of the Borgou ...
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Sexual dimorphism in bacterial infections
... Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the most studied models regarding sexual di- morphism in respiratory tract infections. In humans, tu- berculosis is one of the leading causes of death ...
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Towards understanding the genomic epidemiology of bacterial infections in West Africa
... MLST is a robust tool for assessing population-based microbial diversity 57, as shown by a few key examples: MLST has been instrumental in understanding the global population structure o[r] ...
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Platelet concentrates: reducing the risk of transfusion-transmitted bacterial infections
... more attention was given to bacterial contamination as the major adverse effect of transfusion. Twenty years later, the risk of TTBI is now much lower than it was before, but still TTBI is responsible for about ...
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Clinical update on linezolid in the treatment of Gram-positive bacterial infections
... They found that the average total costs per episode for linezolid- and vancomycin-treated patients were € 12,829 and € 12,409, respectively, with a similar mean length of stay for both drugs (11.2 vs 10.8 days). They ...
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Molecular Identification of Bacterial Infections in Children with Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis
... Patients in established renal failure are at high risk of developing infection due to decreased immune defenses and because that dialysis techniques increase the potential of microbial contamination. The incidence of ...
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Evaluation of a 2-aminoimidazole variant as adjuvant treatment for dermal bacterial infections
... BCM was produced by using the S. aureus biofilms pre- viously grown using DFRs for the analysis of a single species. After the 3-day growth period and the addition of either PBS or H10 for an additional 24 hours growth, ...
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Biodegradable rifampicin-releasing coating of surgical meshes for the prevention of bacterial infections
... The antibacterial characteristics of the mesh implant coated with rifampicin-loaded and unloaded microspheres were also tested by ADT. For our purpose, coated mesh implants instead of single microspheres were ...
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