David L. Longworth

TL;DR: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio has been a referral center for treatment of device-related infections because of the tools and techniques used there to extract leads for transvenous pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators and to define optimal management of these infections, the recent experience at the Foundation was examined.

TL;DR: Patients with clinically significant lactobacillus bacteremia identifies patients with serious and rapidly fatal illness, many of whom have received prior antibiotic therapy that may select out for the organism.

TL;DR: The highest incidence and attack rate of invasive aspergillosis among solid organ transplant recipients occurs in lung transplant recipients and supports the routine use of Aspergillus prophylaxis for at least one year after transplantation in this group.

TL;DR: Resistance to most relevant antimicrobials was commonplace among the Gram-negative bacilli; however, most remained susceptible to imipenem, calling for a nationwide surveillance programme to monitor microbial trends and antimicrobial resistance patterns in Egypt.

TL;DR: Optimal strategies to prevent IA in lung transplant recipients remain to be determined, but prevention of aspergillus airway colonization and CMV viremia and disease after transplantation may be important targets for prophylactic interventions.