BACKGROUND: Antibiotic resistance stands as a critical medical concern, notably evident in commonly prescribed beta-lactam antibiotics. The imperative need for expeditious and precise early detection methods underscores their role in facilitating tim...
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial stewardship focuses on identifying patients who require extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-targeted therapy. 'Rule-in' tools have been researched extensively in areas of low endemicity; however, such tools are inadequat...
Machine learning has been increasingly used for protein engineering. However, because the general sequence contexts they capture are not specific to the protein being engineered, the accuracy of existing machine learning algorithms is rather limited....
There is limited literature examining the accuracy of the VITEK 2 Advanced Expert System (AES) in characterisation of β-lactamase resistance patterns. We present a prospective single centre study to better ascertain the performance characteristics of...
Antibiotics of β-lactam class account for nearly half of the global antibiotic use. The β-lactamase enzyme is a major element of the bacterial arsenals to escape the lethal effect of β-lactam antibiotics. Different variants of β-lactamases have evolv...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Dec 11, 2015
To investigate the in vitro activities of cephamycins (cefmetazole and flomoxef) for extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- and plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamase (pAmpC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae, a total of 574 third-generation cephalosporin-resis...
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common human respiratory pathogen, and β-lactam antibiotics have been employed to treat infections caused by S. pneumoniae for decades. β-lactam resistance is steadily increasing in pneumococci and is mainly assoc...
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