Is routine screening for necessary in ICU?

Background And Objectives: The capability to cause invasive infection, multi-drug resistance, and health care-associated outbreaks of have made it a pathogen of great concern. Estimating how many patients in our intensive care unit had colonization and what characteristics put patients at risk for having spp. colonization were the primary goals of the study.

Time to positivity of blood cultures causing candidemia and its relation to mortality.

Background And Objectives: Early diagnosis of candidemia is of vital importance in reducing mortality and morbidity. The main objective of the study was to determine the TTP (Time to Positivity) of different species of causing bloodstream infection and to see whether TTP can help differentiate which is frequently fluconazole resistant from Fluconazole sensitive .

Materials And Methods: TTP (Time to positivity) and AAT (Appropriate Antifungal therapy) were noted for Blood cultures becoming positive for .

The Predictive Score for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in Resource-Limited Settings.

Background and aims The second wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been devastating in India and many developing countries. The mortality reported has been 40% higher than in the first wave, overwhelming the nation's health infrastructure. Despite a better understanding of the disease and established treatment protocols including steroids and heparin, the second wave was disastrous.

causing deadly sepsis.

Infections caused by are extremely rare but can be relatively fatal in septicemia. We report a case of a 76 year old female who presented with pustules in the skin and later developed into septicemia. She succumbed to the illness despite escalating the antibiotic therapy to meropenem.