Diagnostic Circulating Anodic Antigen Test for Schistosoma haematobium Infections
Study authors investigated UCP-LF circulating anodic antigen (CAA) as a potential diagnostic test for Schistosoma haematobium in pregnant women.
Study authors investigated UCP-LF circulating anodic antigen (CAA) as a potential diagnostic test for Schistosoma haematobium in pregnant women.
Multistate Listeria outbreak in Florida, Massachusetts, and New York leave 10 patients hospitalized.
Study authors assessed the relationship between children living in contact with sputum smear-positive tuberculosis patients on DOTS and children getting infected with tuberculosis or tubercular infection.
Metronidazole, vancomycin, fidaxomicin, meropenem, and piperacillin/tazobactam are rarely resistant to Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection, while second-generation fluoroquinolones and clindamycin show highest risk.
Ertapenem and cefazolin combination therapy was studied to assess use as salvage therapy for persistent bacteremia against a MSSA blood-stream isolate.
Study authors assessed pneumococcal urinary antigen testing’s use in identifying patients for broad-spectrum antibiotic de-escalation, providing an opportunity for improved antimicrobial stewardship.
Study authors compared the use of prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy with standard wound dressing after cesarean delivery in women with obesity.
Research authors assessed the safety and efficacy of intravesical bacteriophage therapy compared to placebo and current standard of care for the treatment of urinary tract infection in patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate.
Continued use of glucocorticoids was associated with dose-dependent increase in the risk for serious infection, with small but significant risk for infection at low doses of 5 mg or less per day.
Approximately 7% of pneumonia cases acquired in the intensive care unit can be classified as Staphylococcus aureus intensive care unit pneumonia.