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Palliat Support Care
January 2025
Unidade Local de Saúde de Santo António, ICBAS Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Objectives: More than 50% of patients with dementia visit the emergency department (ED) each year. Patients with dementia experience frequently unrelieved symptoms that can benefit from . Response to needs in the ED can be quite challenging and access to is generally scarce.
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January 2025
Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address:
Following a period of disuse owing to the emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, colistin has regained global attention as an antibiotic of last resort. The resurgence in its utilization has led to a concurrent increase in acquired resistance, presenting a significant challenge in clinical treatment. Predominantly, resistance mechanisms involve alterations in the lipid A component of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structure.
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January 2025
Department of Medical Microbiology "Corr. Mem. Prof. Ivan Mitov, MD, DMSc", Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Sofia, 2 Zdrave Str., 1431 Sofia, Bulgaria.
Linezolid is an oxazolidinone antibiotic and is considered a last-resort treatment option for serious infections caused by problematic Gram-positive pathogens, including vancomycin-resistant enterococci. The present study aimed to explore the linezolid resistance mechanisms and genomic characteristics of two vancomycin-susceptible isolates from Bulgaria. The strains designated Efs2503-bg (inpatient from Pleven) and Efs966-bg (outpatient from Varna) were recovered from wounds in 2018 and 2023, respectively.
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January 2025
Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Microbiologia Moleculares-LEMiMo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos 13563-120, SP, Brazil.
KPC is a clinically significant serine carbapenemase in most countries, and its rapid spread threatens global public health. transmission is commonly mediated by Tn transposons. The gene has also been found in (NTE).
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January 2025
Department of Physical Medicine, School of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-752 Katowice, Poland.
Background/objectives: Among the neuropsychiatric symptoms of long COVID, the following may be listed: sleep disturbances, headaches, anxiety, depression, dizziness, numbness, memory loss, and concentration difficulties. Various therapies have been implemented to mitigate these symptoms; however, health resort treatments that utilize a wide range of modalities stimulating multidirectional biological reactions may also be effective. The aim of this study was to assess the severity of neuropsychiatric symptoms in long COVID patients who qualified for health resort treatment, evaluate the effectiveness of health resort treatment in this group of patients, and evaluate the effect of balneological factors in the treatment course.
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