Martin J. Blaser

TL;DR: A transposable element‐like sequence identified in the virulence‐associated cag region of Helicobacter pylori reference strain NCTC11638 is unusual in containing two oppositely‐oriented open reading frames whose products are homologues of the single transposases of the unrelated elements, IS200 and IS1341.

TL;DR: Patients with diarrheal illness associated with isolation of Salmonella frequency had vomiting, watery diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever, but the clinical features of the illnesses and the socioeconomic backgrounds of the patients could not be distinguished from those of matched controls who were attending the same clinic.

TL;DR: The 'Urgent Need' Working Party to address the regeneration of antibacterial drug discovery and development identified a number of issues, including increased application of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic principles to expedite drug development; the need to prioritize licensing of drugs active in life-threatening infections; and expansion of the use of surrogate markers and rapid point of care diagnostics to facilitate drug development.

TL;DR: It is concluded that despite gut microbiota disturbance, susceptibility to gut colonization by these pathogens was unchanged and the major gut microbiome disturbance produced by antibiotic treatment may be reduced by colonization with specific microbial taxa.

TL;DR: A study to determine the sensitivity and specificity of a laboratory-based surveillance system using numbers of positive cultures in a medical-surgical patient charts found that 48% represented nosocomial infections.