The Antibacterial Activity and Mechanism of Action of Luteolin Against Trueperella pyogenes.

abstract：Background:Broad-scale evidence has shown the significant association between ambient air pollutants and the development of tuberculosis (TB). However, the impact of air quality on the risk of TB in Taiwan is still poorly understood. Objective:To develop a probabilistic integrated population-level risk assessment appr...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Lin YJ,Lin HC,Yang YF,Chen CY,Ling MP,Chen SC,Chen WY,You SH,Lu TH,Liao CM

更新日期：2019-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease common in tropical and subtropical regions caused by the genus Leishmania, which is transmitted by the bite of female sandflies. In this study, we evaluate the anti-leishmanial effect of recombinant Clostridium α-toxin protein alone and the combination with glucantime t...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Namdar F,Khanahmad H,Ghayour Z,Mirzaei F,Namdar A,Aghaei M,Izadi S,Khamesipour F,Hejazi SH

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumonia is a rare cause of pyogenic sacroiliitis and osteomyelitis. A case of pneumococcal sacroiliitis and osteomyelitis is reported herein. The patient was a previously healthy 54-year-old man with a 3-day history of fever and a 3-week history of increasing right-side thigh pain. Computed tomography ...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Hadano Y,Chang B

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The aim was to examine the clinical characteristics and risk factors for bloodstream infection (BSI) due to carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) in patients with hematologic malignancies. Materials and Methods:A single-centre, retrospective case-control study representing 734 patients with hematol...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Zhang P,Wang J,Hu H,Zhang S,Wei J,Yang Q,Qu T

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:This study examined patient- and hospital-level predictor variables that contribute to worse clinical and economic outcomes in patients with carbapenem-nonsusceptible respiratory infections. Patients and Methods:Electronic data (January 2013 to September 2015) were from 78 US hospitals. Nonduplicate, gram-nega...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： McCann E,Sung AH,Ye G,Vankeepuram L,Tabak YP

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as an important pathogen associated with hospital- and community-acquired infections. Community-acquired A. baumannii pneumonia is characterized by a fulminant course and high mortality rates. In this study, we report the identification of a community-acquired carbapenem-r...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Jia H,Sun Q,Ruan Z,Xie X

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：Background:China is one of the high-burden countries for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and pyrazinamide is one of the anti-TB drugs used for the shorter MDR-TB treatment regimen. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between pncA gene mutations and resistance to four first-line anti-TB dru...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Cao Z,Lan Y,Chen L,Xiang M,Peng Z,Zhang J,Zhang H

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic review was conducted to determine the distribution and prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), antimicrobial-resistant genes (ARGs), and antimicrobial-resistant gene determinants (ARGDs) in clinical, environmental, and farm settings and to identify key knowledge gaps in a bid to contain their s...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Ekwanzala MD,Dewar JB,Kamika I,Momba MNB

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: To investigate antimicrobial resistance and risk factors for mortality of Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) pneumonia in diabetics and nondiabetics. Patients and methods: A retrospective study was conducted among inpatients of KP pneumonia via electronic medical records in a territory hospital between January 2016 a...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Liu B,Yi H,Fang J,Han L,Zhou M,Guo Y

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Escherichia (E.) coli can cause intestinal and extra-intestinal infections which ranged from mild to life-threatening infections. The severity of infection is a product of many factors including virulence properties and antimicrobial resistance. Objectives:To determine the antibiotic resistance pattern, t...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Abd El-Baky RM,Ibrahim RA,Mohamed DS,Ahmed EF,Hashem ZS

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Heteroresistance is a phenomenon that occurs in all bacteria and can cause treatment failure. Yet, the exact mechanisms responsible for heteroresistance still remain unknown. The following study investigated the mechanisms of imipenem-heteroresistance and -resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolat...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Xu Y,Zheng X,Zeng W,Chen T,Liao W,Qian J,Lin J,Zhou C,Tian X,Cao J,Zhou T

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Moxifloxacin (MXF) has been advocated for the treatment of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis despite resistance to older-generation fluoroquinolones. We investigated the relationship between the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of MXF and mutations in the gyrA and gyrB genes in Mycobacteriu...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Dookie N,Sturm AW,Moodley P

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The purpose of this study was to identify the common clinical presentations and the evidence on the presence of ageusia and anosmia as an emerging coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptom to better inform in both COVID-19 patients and clinicians. Patients and Methods:As part of a double-institutional collab...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Farah Yusuf Mohamud M,Garad Mohamed Y,Mohamed Ali A,Ali Adam B

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To assess the efficacy of amoxicillin, tetracycline, high-dose metronidazole, and a proton-pump inhibitor for third-line Helicobacter pylori eradication. Methods:We enrolled 70 consecutive patients who had registered, failed to respond to two rounds of H. pylori eradication, and undergone endoscopy for H. pylo...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Huang HT,Wang HM,Yang SC,Tai WC,Liang CM,Wu KL,Lee CH,Chuah SK

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Treatment-refractory Giardia cases have increased rapidly within the last decade. No markers of resistance nor a standardized susceptibility test have been established yet, but several enzymes and their pathways have been associated with metronidazole (MTZ) resistant Giardia. Very limited data are available r...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Saghaug CS,Klotz C,Kallio JP,Brattbakk HR,Stokowy T,Aebischer T,Kursula I,Langeland N,Hanevik K

更新日期：2019-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The ability of biofilm formation is an effective way for Acinetobacter baumannii survival from stressed conditions. This present study was aimed to evaluate the association between biofilm formation, structure, the expression levels of genes related to biofilm formation and biofilm-specific resistance of A. ...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Amin M,Navidifar T,Shooshtari FS,Rashno M,Savari M,Jahangirmehr F,Arshadi M

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:With the recommendation of World Health Organization (WHO) and as per the Ethiopian National Implementation Guideline, GeneXpert is used for rapid diagnosis of rifampicin (RIF)-resistant multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from the suspected TB patients; however, there were limited findings in Ethiopia pa...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Zewdie O,Dabsu R,Kifle E,Befikadu D

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Raltegravir, the only integrase (IN) inhibitor approved for use in HIV therapy, has recently been licensed. Raltegravir inhibits HIV-1 replication by blocking the IN strand transfer reaction. More than 30 mutations have been associated with resistance to raltegravir and other IN strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs). Th...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Mbisa JL,Martin SA,Cane PA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Due to increasing colistin usage, the dissemination of the colistin-resistant gene mcr-1 has been increasingly investigated. The aim of this study was to determine whether a traveler on a short-term international trip to a developing country could bring mcr-1 back to their home country. Materials and method...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Nakayama T,Kumeda Y,Kawahara R,Yamaguchi T,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:β-lactam and fluoroquinolone antibiotics are usually used for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) and extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from UTIs. Materia...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Azargun R,Sadeghi MR,Soroush Barhaghi MH,Samadi Kafil H,Yeganeh F,Ahangar Oskouee M,Ghotaslou R

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Understanding drug resistance is important in drug selection for Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication, and drug resistance data are lacking in Beijing. Purpose:This cross-sectional study aimed to isolate H. pylori from patients with gastroduodenal diseases and to analyze drug resistance to clarithr...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Lok CH,Zhu D,Wang J,Ren YT,Jiang X,Li SJ,Zhao XY

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB), especially when carbapenem resistant, have been very difficult to manage in the last fifteen years, owing to the paucity of dependable therapeutic options. Cefiderocol is a siderophore cephalosporin recently approved by the Food and Drug Administr...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Giacobbe DR,Ciacco E,Girmenia C,Pea F,Rossolini GM,Sotgiu G,Tascini C,Tumbarello M,Viale P,Bassetti M,ISGRI-SITA (Italian Study Group on Resistant Infections of the Italian Society of Anti-infective Therapy).

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) and its metabolic enzymes are important in several cellular processes related with virulence and antibiotic susceptibility. Accordingly, bacterial polyP synthesis has been proposed as a good target for designing novel antivirulence molecules as alternative to conventional antibiotics. I...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Campos F,Álvarez JA,Ortiz-Severín J,Varas MA,Lagos CF,Cabrera R,Álvarez SA,Chávez FP

更新日期：2019-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:In the present study, we aimed to describe the clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of spinal epidural abscess (SEA). Methods:The complete clinical data of 11 SEA patients who were treated in our hospital system from January 2015 to June 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. Moreover, the cli...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Dai G,Li S,Yin C,Sun Y,Xu D,Wang Z,Luan L,Hou J,Wang T

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Helicobacter pylori was discovered first in the stomachs of patients with gastritis and ulcers by Marshall and Warren in 1982. This discovery majorly affected many research areas of gastroenterology. Since then, the main aim has been to eradicate this microaerophilic bacterium from the stomachs of infected...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Khani S,Talebi Bezmin Abadi A,Mohabati Mobarez A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Infections, in particular with multidrug-resistant organisms, are a burden for inpatient and outpatient care and the whole community. The pathogens "roam" with patients and their relatives, forming an epidemiological bridge between different care facilities. Patients could play an important role in infection co...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Goerig T,Dittmann K,Kramer A,Diedrich S,Heidecke CD,Huebner NO

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and cellular studies have shown that the host's innate and adaptive immune responses are an important correlate of viral infection outcome. The features of the host's immune response (host resistance) reflect the coevolution between hosts and pathogens that has occurred over millennia, and that has also result...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Plauzolles A,Lucas M,Gaudieri S

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Bloodstream infection (BSI) caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae are potentially life-threatening related to poorer outcomes. Colistin is considered one of the last-resort treatments against human infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria. Therefore, emergence of stra...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Lin M,Yang Y,Yang Y,Chen G,He R,Wu Y,Zhong LL,El-Sayed Ahmed MAE,Feng S,Shen C,Wen X,Huang J,Li H,Zheng X,Tian GB

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：Background and Objectives:Tuberculosis (TB) is a global public health issue. The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB has further complicated the situation in the form of poor treatment outcomes and costs to individuals and health-care systems. We therefore aimed to measure the prevalence and associated risk facto...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Sambas MFMK,Rabbani U,Al-Gethamy MMM,Surbaya SH,Alharbi FFI,Ahmad RGA,Qul HKH,Nassar SMS,Maddah AKMA,Darweesh BAK

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical performance of the BD Kiestra InoqulA automated specimen processing system with commonly encountered clinical microbiology specimens. Materials and Methods:Four types of clinical specimens (sputum, urine, normally sterile body fluids, and feces) were inocul...

journal_title：Infection and drug resistance

authors： Yue P,Zhou M,Zhang L,Yang Q,Song H,Xu Z,Zhang G,Xie X,Xu Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00