Post-stroke pneumonia: Factors associated with readmission within 90 days of stroke discharge.

Objective: The objective was to identify risk and protective factors associated with post-stroke pneumonia readmission.

Method: A retrospective chart review was conducted on 365 stroke patients who were admitted to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas from January 1, 2015 through January 30, 2020.

Malleilactone Is a Burkholderia pseudomallei Virulence Factor Regulated by Antibiotics and Quorum Sensing.

, the causative agent of melioidosis, encodes almost a dozen predicted polyketide (PK) biosynthetic gene clusters. Many of these are regulated by LuxR-I-type acyl-homoserine (AHL) quorum-sensing systems. One of the PK gene clusters, the gene cluster, is conserved in the close relative The genes code for the cytotoxin malleilactone and are regulated by a genetically linked LuxR-type transcription factor, MalR.