Acinetobacter baumannii is the leading cause of nosocomial infection. A surface protein commonly known as biofilm associate protein (Bap) has been identified in a bloodstream isolate of A. b...
Staphylococcus aureus is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections and can cause a wide range of diseases from mild skin infections to invasive diseases including deep surgical site ...
Sepsis is a systemic organ dysfunction caused by infection, and the most affected organ is the lungs. Rosavin, a traditional Tibetan medicine, exerts an impressive anti--inflammatory effect....
The July 2023 issue contains a Special Feature about CD4 T cells in infection and vaccination. CD4 T helper cells are composed of many specialized subsets that play critical roles in immune ...
Hereditary complement deficiencies are relatively rare worldwide, they account for about 1-10% of primary immunodeficiencies. Acquired complement deficiencies are more prevalent and with the...
Neonatal sepsis has been a global concern considering the mortality and morbidity. This study was undertaken to determine the effects of implementation of interventions namely healthcare ass...
Impact of comorbidity on infection risk among hip fracture patients is unclear. We found high incidence of infection. Comorbidity was an important risk factor for infection up to 1 year afte...
Septic arthritis of the shoulder is distinctly challenging to diagnose and treat. Guidelines for appropriate workup and management are limited and do not account for the variations in clinic...
Hemiparesis increases the risk of femoral neck fracture (FNF) in the elderly, which frequently necessitates hemiarthroplasty. There are limited reports on the outcomes of hemiarthroplasty in...
The Sonata System is a minimally-invasive, ultrasound-guided transcervical fibroid ablation procedure for management of symptomatic uterine fibroids. Since its approval by the U.S Food and D...
Despite significant morbidity, radical cystectomy (RC) is standard of care for muscle invasive bladder cancer, certain high-risk nonmuscle invasive tumors and after failure of intravesical o...
The impact of the organism virulence on diagnostic accuracy of D-Dimer for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is unknown. Our objective was to assess if the performance of D-Dimer in PJI d...
It is proposed that the development of parenteral nutrition-associated cholestasis (PNAC) was significantly associated with preterm birth, low birth weight, infection, etc.; however, the eti...
To compare postoperative outcomes of three types of endourologic surgeries (TURP, laser vaporization (LVP) and laser enucleation (LEP)) for BPH treatment using the ACS-NSQIP database.The ACS...
Invasive candidiasis (IC) is a severe and often fatal fungal infection that affects critically ill patients. The development of animal models that mimic human disease is essential for advanc...
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare and often fatal condition characterized by inappropriate immune system activation leading to a "cytokine storm", and ultimately resulting i...
A novel cell culture system that monitors keratinocytes during negative-pressure wound therapy may be more easily incorporated into existing laboratories. Negative-pressure wound ther...
Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) is a very rare complication of sepsis and multi-organ failure. Herein, we report the first case of CIP reported in a patient on maintenance hemodialysis...
Revision THA (rTHA) places a burden on patients, surgeons, and health care systems because outcomes and costs are less predictable than primary THA. The purposes of this study were to define...
The impact of E. coli in causing peripartum infections has been increasing due to rising ampicillin resistance. In this study, we compared maternal and neonatal outcomes of women with prolo...
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