MOTIVATION: World Health Organization estimates that there were over 10 million cases of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide in 2019, resulting in over 1.4 million deaths, with a worrisome increasing trend yearly. The disease is caused by Mycobacterium tuber...
BACKGROUND: Systematic studies to estimate the disease burden of typhoid and paratyphoid in India are limited. Therefore, a multicenter study on the Surveillance of Enteric Fever in India was carried out to estimate the incidence, clinical presentati...
, a gram-negative bacterium, is a common pathogen causing nosocomial infection. The drug-resistance rate of is increasing year by year, posing a severe threat to public health worldwide. has been listed as one of the pathogens causing the global c...
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Jun 18, 2021
BACKGROUND: Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is critical to reducing its wide-reaching impact. Its reliance on sample size invites solutions to longstanding constraints regarding scalability. A robotic platform (RASP) was developed for ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 1, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. The emergence of antimicrobial resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains makes the problem more severe. Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important component for short-co...
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...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 26, 2020
Multi-drug-resistant (MDR) infections and their devastating consequences constitute a global problem and a constant threat to public health with immense costs for their treatment. Early identification of the pathogen and its antibiotic resistance pro...
BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive spherical bacterium commonly present in nasal fossae and in the skin of healthy people; however, in high quantities, it can lead to complications that compromise health. The pathologies involved in...
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacteria. One of the main causes of mortality from TB is the problem of Mtb resistance to known drugs.