Yeast-related bloodstream infections (BSIs) in pediatric patients are associated with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), hematological/oncological malignancies and admission to an intensiv...
Natale A, Oueslati S, Rochard A, Lopez-Baez D, Ombelet S, et al.
2023-01-31 • Diagnostics
2023-01-31 • Diagnostics
Culture media is fundamental in clinical bacteriology for the detection and isolation of bacterial pathogens. However, in-house media preparation could be challenging in low-resource set...
Lenglet AD, Contigiani O, Ariti C, Evens E, Charles K, et al.
2022-06-23 • PLOS One
2022-06-23 • PLOS One
In low-resource settings, detection of healthcare-acquired outbreaks in neonatal units relies on astute clinical staff to observe unusual morbidity or mortality from sepsis as microbiolo...
Rao PS, Moore CC, Mbonde AA, Nuwagira E, Orikiriza P, et al.
2021-06-18 • Antibiotics
2021-06-18 • Antibiotics
Critical illness from tuberculosis (TB) bloodstream infection results in a high case fatality rate for people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Critical illness can lead to...
Lenglet AD, Schuurmans J, Ariti C, Borgundvaag E, Charles K, et al.
2020-12-01 • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
2020-12-01 • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
OBJECTIVES We analysed the concordance of rectal swab isolates and blood culture for Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) isolates in neonates with a suspicion of neonatal sepsis admitted to...
INTRODUCTION Between July 2014 and September 2015, a neonatal care unit (NCU) in Port Au Prince, Haiti, experienced an outbreak of sepsis, most probably due to nosocomial transmissio...