BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis (IE) carries high in-hospital mortality, particularly among intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The predictive role of blood culture positivity in these patients remains unclear.
UNLABELLED: Bloodstream infections (BSIs) have become increasingly challenging to treat due to emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR). As rapid administration of appropriate antimicrobials is crucial to positive patient outcomes, clinical alternativ...
Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (RAST) using disk diffusion (DD) from positive blood cultures (BC) can aid initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy. Rapid molecular blood culture identification panels (BCID) and microbiology laborator...
Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute
May 10, 2025
BACKGROUND: Blood stream infection (BSI) represent a life-threatening condition. Thus, we aimed to investigate the role of procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) tests in adult febrile patients with BSI and other clinical infections in hosp...
Leukemia patients who receive chemotherapy experience a decline in neutrophils and an increased risk of infections. Neutropenic sepsis is a life-threatening condition and a major cause of cancer-related mortality. Patients with neutropenic sepsis are...
BACKGROUND: Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a systemic infection that predisposes individuals to sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Early identification of infectious agents and determination of drug-resistant phenotypes can help patients...
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology
Jan 16, 2025
BACKGROUND: Though droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) has emerged as a promising tool for early pathogen detection in bloodstream infections (BSIs), more studies are needed to support its clinical application widely due to different ddPCR platforms with dis...
Patients with positive blood cultures in the intensive care unit (ICU) are at high risk for septic acute kidney injury requiring continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT), especially when treated with vancomycin. This study developed a machine lea...
Novel artificial intelligence methods can aide in identification of cases of conditions using only unstructured electronic health record data. This graph-based method compares comprehensive electronic health records among neonates using temporal data...
INTRODUCTION: The liberal use of blood cultures in emergency departments (EDs) leads to low yields and high numbers of false-positive results. False-positive, contaminated cultures are associated with prolonged hospital stays, increased antibiotic us...
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