Carbapenem-Resistant NDM and OXA-48- Producing : From Menacing Superbug to a Mundane Bacteria; A Retrospective Study in a Romanian Tertiary Hospital.

Background: Carbapenem-resistant (Cr-Kpn) is becoming a growing public health problem through the failure of adequate treatment. This study's objectives are to describe the sources of Cr-Kpn in our hospital over 22 months, associating factors with the outcome of Cr-Kpn-positive patients, especially those with NDM+OXA-48- (New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase and oxacillinase-48) and the effectiveness of the treatments used.

Methods: A retrospective observational cohort study including all hospitalized patients with Cr-Kpn isolates.

Investigating the potential use of an Antarctic variant of Janthinobacterium lividum for tackling antimicrobial resistance in a One Health approach.

The aim of this paper is to describe a new variant of Janthinobacterium lividum - ROICE173, isolated from Antarctic snow, and to investigate the antimicrobial effect of the crude bacterial extract against 200 multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria of both clinical and environmental origin, displaying various antibiotic resistance patterns. ROICE173 is extremotolerant, grows at high pH (5.5-9.

Sensors and Actuators on Determining Parameters for Being Considered in Selection of Elastomers for Biomimetic Hands.

In this paper, the authors present a new methodology to study the viscoelastic behaviour of the human finger. The methodology is based on experimental research consisting of a finger's indentation with a small steel cylindrical object for various indentation speeds. The tests were realized on a CETR UMT-2 Tribometer for indentation speed between 0.