Background: Chronic cholecystitis, characterized by persistent inflammation of the gallbladder, predominantly stems from the prolonged presence of gallstones. Calculous cholecystitis has demonstrated a consistent escalation in its incidence over time.Gallbladder stones have been recognized as a predisposing factor for the development of biliary tract infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: has been known to cause various human infections. It is naturally resistant to vancomycin and is difficult to identify using traditional methods, which may lead to misidentification and delay treatment.
Case Presentation: We present a case of a 42-year-old male patient with gastrointestinal bleeding and coronary heart disease who developed sepsis caused by .
Background: Antibiotics exert an outstanding selective pressure on bacteria, forcing their chromosomal gene mutations and drug resistance genes to spread. The objective of this study is to evaluate the expression of the New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase-1 gene (bla) in the clinical isolate (Klebsiella pneumoniae TH-P12158), transformant strains Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3)-bla, and Escherichia coli DH5α- bla when exposed to imipenem.
Methods: β-Lactamase genes (bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, and bla) from randomly selected carbapenems-sensitive K.