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A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report provides a scary snapshot of the threats posed by antibiotic-resistant germs in the U.S., with special focus paid to pathogens such as – ...

Researchers examined rates of new multidrug-resistant organism colonization and healthcare-associated infections before and after a hospital move in Montréal, Canada. The move involved shifting ...

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Using infection control measures to manage vancomycin-resistant enterococci is hotly debated topic, so researchers assessed the efficacy of two infection prevention measures in a study published in ...

Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) are increasingly important pathogens in stem cell transplant (SCT). In all, 61 pediatric SCT patients had surveillance stool cultures for VRE between July 1999 ...

Our experience confirms and extends the findings of a previous case series on the use of daptomycin for the treatment of VRE UTIs. The previous study [12] of 5 hospitalized patients with indwelling ...

The treatment of infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has become an important clinical challenge and compromises the care of critically ill patients. A striking increase in the ...

Hospitals can't expect to control or prevent outbreaks of infections such as vancomycin-resistant enterococcus without sharing data and coordinating with other regional providers, a Johns Hopkins ...

Pre-Op MRI Predicts Outcome of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy The local application of prophylactic vancomycin significantly reduces the risk of surgical site infections in patients undergoing ...

The quest to understand a prolonged infection in an infant being treated for leukemia has led to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital discovery of a mutation that allows bacteria to tolerate ...