Deirdre L. Church

TL;DR: Improved outcomes for severely burned patients have been attributed to medical advances in fluid resuscitation, nutritional support, pulmonary and burn wound care, and infection control practices.

TL;DR: An EDTA disk screen test and a molecular diagnostic assay for the detection of MBL-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa are reported that are simple to perform and to interpret and can easily be introduced into the workflow of a clinical laboratory.

TL;DR: This assay represents a simple, rapid, accurate, and reliable approach for the detection of methicillin- and mupirocin-resistant staphylococci and offers the hope of preventing their widespread dissemination through early and reliable detection.

TL;DR: Evaluating the modified Hodge test, Mastdiscs ID inhibitor combination disks, Rosco Diagnostica Neo-Sensitabs, and in-house multiplex PCR for the detection of well-characterized carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae found MDI and RDS were easy to perform and interpret but lacked sensitivity for OXA-48-like enzymes, VIMs, and IMPs.

TL;DR: Infestation was most common in people at the extremes of the age spectrum and in males, and several conditions were associated with acquisition of ISA infection, and the highest risk was observed in persons undergoing hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis and in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus.