International journal of antimicrobial agents
Dec 26, 2024
BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread use of voriconazole in antifungal treatment, its high pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic variability may lead to suboptimal efficacy, especially in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Machine learning (ML), an arti...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Dec 5, 2024
BACKGROUND: Given the rising number of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, there is a need to design synthetic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that are highly active, non-hemolytic, and highly soluble. Machine learning tools allow the straightforward i...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Oct 31, 2024
OBJECTIVES: Skin injuries and infections are an inevitable part of daily human life, particularly with chronic wounds, becoming an increasing socioeconomic burden. In treating skin infections and promoting wound healing, bioactive peptides may hold s...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Sep 6, 2024
BACKGROUND: The use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-time-of-flight mass spectra (MALDI-TOF MS) with machine learning (ML) has been explored for predicting antimicrobial resistance. This study evaluates the effectiveness of MALDI-TOF MS...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Apr 19, 2024
OBJECTIVES: Colistin-induced nephrotoxicity prolongs hospitalisation and increases mortality. The study aimed to construct machine learning models to predict colistin-induced nephrotoxicity in patients with multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infection...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Feb 29, 2024
BACKGROUND: With increasing antibiotic resistance and regulation, the issue of antibiotic combination has been emphasised. However, antibiotic combination prescribing lacks a rapid identification of feasibility, while its risk of drug interactions is...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Dec 23, 2017
BACKGROUND: Osteomyelitis is a difficult-to-treat infection that regularly involves prolonged use of systemic antibiotics. Dalbavancin has demonstrated activity against Gram-positive isolates, and has been considered as a candidate for the treatment ...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Dec 22, 2017
Dosing recommendations for continuous infusion of piperacillin, a broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic, are mainly guided by outputs from population pharmacokinetic models constructed with intermittent infusion data. However, the probability of targ...
International journal of antimicrobial agents
Dec 18, 2015
The pharmacogenetics and pharmacokinetics of efavirenz (EFV) have been widely studied, although data in the Italian population are limited. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CYP2B6 gene have been associated with increased EFV plasma conce...