Maria Virginia Villegas

TL;DR: The antimicrobial resistance frequencies of several Enterobacteriaceae species showed a decreasing trend and P. aeruginosa was demonstrated to be a multidrug-resistance organism with increasing resistance frequencies, emphasize the importance of surveillance programs in detecting presence of multidrog-resistant organisms.

TL;DR: The presence of KPC-2 in different enterobacterial species from different cities within Colombia underlines the spread of K PC beyond K. pneumoniae.

TL;DR: The epidemiology of Candida infections in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) from a surveillance network in Colombia and Candida species and susceptibility profiles focusing on fluconazole and voriconazole revealed that non-C.

TL;DR: The genus Raoultella was established in 2001 as mentioned in this paper and it shares many ecological, biochemical, clinical, and microbiological features with Klebsiella spp. Given the shortcomings of available technology for species identification in the clinical microbiology laboratory, are practically indistinguishable.

TL;DR: Different studies have shown evidence about the effectiveness of chlorhexidine in the prevention of infections related to surgical sites, vascular catheter related bloodstream infections, ventilator associated pneumonia, maternal and neonatal infections and other infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus.