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J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
January 2025
University Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, Department of Internal Medicine, USA.
is a rod-shaped, flagellated, non-lactose fermenting, gram negative bacterium, usually found in water and soil habitats. generally causes nosocomial infections in immunocompromised patients. Increased infection rates are seen in those patients with medical devices inserted, due to this organism's innate ability to attach to moist and inanimate objects.
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January 2025
BMT Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Villa Sofia-Cervello, Palermo, Italy.
Colonization by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria and related bloodstream infections (BSI) are associated with a high rate of mortality in patients with hematological malignancies after intensive chemotherapy and allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT). In this retrospective study, we analyzed the outcomes of patients colonized with MDR bacteria (primarily carbapenem-resistant , KPC), before allo-SCT. We also investigated the feasibility and safety of an antimicrobial de-escalating approach in these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pharm Policy Pract
January 2025
Shifa College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shifa Tameer e Milat University, Pakistan.
Background: Antibiotics are widely used medications among infectious disease patients; therefore, proper monitoring and assessment are critical for ensuring rational use. Antimicrobial stewardship addresses the rational and appropriate use of antibiotics, which reinforces overall health outcomes. Ongoing antimicrobial resistance scenarios are an alarming condition for healthcare, necessitating continued practice of such assessments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Infect Dis
January 2025
Department of Pharmacy Services, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Clin Infect Dis
January 2025
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America.
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