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Newest firstWhen assessing a patient with bacteremia to develop an appropriate treatment plan, it is important to identify the most likely source in order to achieve source control as well as provide adequate antibiotic coverage per culture results. Through confirmation bias and the availability heuristic, it is easy to consider only the most commonly known or first options that come to mind when thinking of the source of a p…
Open article record in new tab ↗Bacteremia is a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where diagnostic delays and empirical antimicrobial misuse exacerbate resistance. This study assessed the accuracy of OneChoice(R), an artificial intelligence (AI)-based Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS), in guiding antimicrobial therapy for bloodstream infections (BSIs) in Lima, Peru. A retr…
ObjectiveElectronic Health Records (EHRs) provide information to explore those at risk of various diseases, though studying entire populations is limited by data availability, potentially introducing biases. We compared different samples, varied by type of hospital contact, to assess the impact on missing data and model results. Materials and MethodsUsing Escherichia coli bloodstream infections as a case study, we…
Open article record in new tab ↗Enterococcus faecalis is a common cause of healthcare acquired bloodstream infections and catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) in both adults and children. Treatment of E. faecalis infection is frequently complicated by multi-drug resistance. Based on protein homology, E. faecalis encodes two putative hyaluronidases, EF3023 (HylA) and EF0818 (HylB). In other Gram-positive pathogens, hyaluronidases…
S. aureus is a common cause of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) and has recently become the most common cause of bloodstream infections (BSIs), but whether the strains causing these two clinical syndromes overlap has not been studied adequately. USA300/500 (clonal complex [CC] 8-ST8) and USA100 (CC5-ST5) have dominated among methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains in the U.S. since the early 2000s. W…
Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are considered a major cause of death worldwide. Staphylococcus spp. are one of the most BSIs prevalent bacteria, classified as high priority due to the increasing multidrug resistant strains. Thus, a fast, specific and sensitive method for detection of these pathogens is of extreme importance. In this study, we have designed a novel assay for detection of Staphylococcus in blood cult…
IntroductionThe 2015 dengue outbreak in southern Taiwan caused substantial mortality rates in the elderly. We analyzed here the causes of death among adults with dengue.\n\nMethodsThe retrospective study was conducted at a medical center in Tainan from the 1st of August to 31th of December in the year 2015. The detection of the dengue NS1 antigen IgM or viral RNA in patients blood were used to diagnose dengue. Cli…
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