Publications by authors named "M Abou El Ghar"
Article Synopsis
- Trauma and accidental injuries are a major global health concern, with India experiencing the highest road accident deaths, accounting for 11% of the world's total.
- A study from January 2023 to January 2024 analyzed wound samples from road traffic accident (RTA) patients in a northern Indian tertiary care center to assess bacterial contamination and antibiotic susceptibility.
- Out of 189 samples, 52.38% showed microbial growth, predominantly Gram-negative bacilli, with none being resistant to colistin; 26.45% of patients developed sepsis, linked to raised procalcitonin levels and low Glasgow Coma Scale scores.
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- Prostate cancer (PC) is a common and serious cancer in men, but current diagnostic methods like biopsies have drawbacks in invasiveness and accuracy.
- This study introduces a machine learning technique that uses clinical data and personalized questionnaires to improve PC diagnosis, employing various advanced methods including CNNs for tabular data analysis.
- The proposed approach shows impressive results with an F1-score of 0.907 and AUC of 0.911, indicating a potential for accurate PC detection without invasive and expensive tests.
Article Synopsis
- Burkholderia spp., which are opportunistic pathogens, primarily infect individuals with compromised immune systems; this study examined how these bacteria cause blood infections (bacteremia) in patients from a northern Indian university hospital over one year.
- Among 300 patients, the average age was about 34 years, with a majority being male; underlying malignancies were the most common diagnosis, and all patients had catheters, with Burkholderia cenocepacia being the most frequently isolated type.
- Factors such as kidney disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and respiratory disease increased the risk of death from these infections, while patients with malignancies often had better outcomes if the bacteria were treatable with antibiotics.
Introduction: species are emerging bacteria capable of causing nosocomial infections in immunocompromised patients or patients with indwelling medical devices.
Hypothesis/ Gap Statement: Information about the incidence of bacteremia from worldwide literature is limited.
Aim: We aimed to recognize the clinical characteristics, frequency of distribution of different species isolates, and their antimicrobial susceptibility profile from bloodstream infections.
One year experience of bacteremia at a tertiary care hospital in Northern India.
Access Microbiol
September 2023
Introduction: is a Gram-negative, motile, obligate aerobic and non-fermentative bacterium. It is an emerging pathogen in the hospital environment as it is frequently found in various solutions.
Hypothesis/gap Statement: Information about the incidence and risk factors of bacteremia from India is limited.