Non-suppurative Tissue Reaction to Polyether Ether Ketone Anchor in Rotator Cuff Repair.

Introduction: Interferential screws and anchors have played a major role in fixation of soft tissue to bony tunnel. With advent of time, there developed metal anchors, biodegradable anchors, bioinert anchors, etc. Biodegradable anchors had complications such as reactive synovitis, cyst formation, soft-tissue inflammation, and local osteolysis.

Paediatric Long Bone Fractures Managed with Elastic Intramedullary Nails: A Retrospective Study of 30 Patients.

Elastic intramedullary nailing or titanium elastic nail (TEN) is an alternative method for the treatment of various pediatric long bone fractures. Titanium nails are preferred over plaster cast and stainless steel nails for children older than six years. Our series included 30 paediatric long bone fractures who were managed with TEN.

Recent pattern of antibiotic resistance in clinical isolates in Eastern India and the emergence of reduced susceptibility to vancomycin.

Purpose: We aimed to determine the recent pattern of antibiotic resistance and assess the vancomycin susceptibility profile of clinical in view of emerging reports of vancomycin creep, reduced vancomycin susceptibility (RVS), including heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate (hVISA) and vancomycin-intermediate , and vancomycin resistance in isolates.

Materials And Methods: Consecutive, nonduplicate isolates of between July 2015 and June 2016 were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing using standard disk diffusion test or Etest as per the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute 2015. Detection of hVISA was done by glycopeptide resistance detection Etest according to the manufacturer's instructions in strains with vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration of 1-2 μg/ml.

Activity of Fosfomycin against Multidrug-Resistant Urinary and Nonurinary Gram-Negative Isolates.

Background: The era of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) has renewed interest in fosfomycin.

Aim: The present study evaluated the activity of fosfomycin against MDR urinary and nonurinary GNB isolates.

Materials And Methods: Fosfomycin susceptibility was carried out by agar dilution for a total of 279 (142 from urine and 137 from other samples) MDR-GNB.