Publications by authors named "Loreto Rojas-Wettig"
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- * Researchers collected fecal samples from 775 hospitalized patients and 357 community members; they found high rates of fluoroquinolone-resistant (FQR), extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant (ESCR), and multidrug-resistant (MDR) GNB in both groups.
- * The study highlighted that antibiotic-resistant bacteria are common in both hospitals and communities, emphasizing the need for further investigation into how these resistant strains spread between these environments.
Many bloodstream infections (BSI) in patients with central venous catheters (CVC) are not catheter-related (CR). Assessment of catheter involvement without catheter withdrawal has not been studied in candidemia. We assessed the value of conservative techniques to evaluate catheters as the origin of candidemia in patients with CVC in a prospective cohort study (superficial Gram stain and culture, Kite technique (Gram stain and culture of the first 1 cm blood drawn from the CVC), proportion of positive blood cultures (PPBCs), differential time to positivity (DTP), and minimal time to positivity (MTP)).
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