The recent study by Tamma and colleagues and another from 2012 [1] provide insight on whether beta-lactam/beta-lactamase-inhibitor combination antibiotics (BLBLIs ...
Older women facing repeated urinary tract infections are running into a biological wall: the E. coli strains behind their ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A biochemical test that can rapidly identify extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae in a blood culture is 100% accurate on all fronts, new ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CRE cases were less frequent but were associated with hospitalization. Over half of CRE cases were caused by E.
In a recent study published in the Microbiology Spectrum Journal, researchers suggest that Escherichia coli ST2797 could potentially be a new type of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) ...
Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E) have become a critical global public health challenge due to their high resistance to β-lactam antibiotics and association with severe ...
Extended‐spectrum β‐lactamases (ESBLs) are enzymes produced by members of the family Enterobacteriaceae—principally Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae—that hydrolyse a broad range of β‐lactam ...
Illustration of Enterobacteriaceae bacteria. Individual bacterium are shown as pink rod shapes. The Enterobacteriaceae family contains over a hundred species including Shigella, Klebsiella, Salmonella ...