Secondary Bacterial Infections in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Hospital in Romania.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caught healthcare systems in many countries unprepared. Shortages of personnel, medicines, disinfectants, and intensive care unit (ICU) capacities, combined with inadvertent use of antibiotics and emergence of drug-resistant secondary infections, led to a surge in COVID-19-related mortality. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of secondary bacterial infections and the associated antibiotic resistance in a temporary established ICU dedicated to COVID-19 patients.

Rapid Molecular Diagnostics of Pneumonia Caused by Gram-Negative Bacteria: A Clinician's Review.

With approximately half a billion events per year, lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) represent a major challenge for the global public health. Among LRTI cases, those caused by Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) are associated with a poorer prognostic. Standard-of-care etiologic diagnostics is lengthy and difficult to establish, with more than half of cases remaining microbiologically undocumented.

Serogroups and genetic diversity of diarrheagenic strains of Escherichia coli: a retrospective study.

Introduction: Diverse serogroups of Escherichia coli cause sporadic cases and outbreaks of diarrhea among children. Our study aimed to evaluate the serogroups of diarrheagenic strains of E. coli that cause diarrheal disease in children under two years old, and clarify if the cases were sporadic or outbreaks.

. in Lower Respiratory Tract Secretions - A Ten Years Retrospective Study.

Introduction: Lower respiratory tract secretions (LRTS) like sputum and tracheal aspirates are frequently sent to the microbiology laboratory from patients with various respiratory pathologies. Improper collection techniques can lead to false-positive results, resulting in improper therapy.

Aim Of The Study: To determine the percentage of contaminated samples sent to the microbiology laboratory, to establish the prevalence of spp.

and Candidiasis-Opportunism Versus Pathogenicity: A Review of the Virulence Traits.

One of the most important questions in microbiology nowadays, is how apparently harmless, commensal yeasts like spp. can cause a rising number of infections. The occurrence of the disease requires firstly the attachment to the host cells, followed by the invasion of the tissue.