Among patients with gram-negative bacilli bloodstream infections, rapid blood culture antimicrobial susceptibility testing was not superior to standard testing by desirability of outcome ranking. When ...

Trial comes up negative, but shorter hospital stays observed in carbapenem-resistant cases ...

OBJECTIVE: Tracheal aspirates (TAs) from mechanically ventilated very low birth weight (VLBW) infants are frequently obtained during the evaluation of suspected sepsis, tracheitis, or ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Some gram-negative bacilli, or GNB, are inherently resistant to certain antibiotics. Others acquire resistance ...

Gram staining is a type of differential staining used to distinguish between Gram positive and Gram negative bacterial groups, based on inherent differences in their cell wall constituents. Stains ...

Bacterial species, and even specific strains can be differentiated using a number of molecular techniques such as PCR, quantitative PCR, genome sequencing and mass spectrometry. But even without ...

Antibiotics are no longer able to treat infections as effectively as they once did because many pathogens have developed resistance to these drugs. This phenomenon, known as antimicrobial resistance ...