Infections due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae have become major international
public health problem due to the inadequate treatment options and the historically lagged …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has recently emerged as a potential valuable alternative to
treat microbial infections. In PDT, singlet oxygen is generated in the presence of …

Plasmids are major vectors of bacterial antibiotic resistance, but understanding of factors
associated with plasmid antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) carriage is limited. We curated> …

Escherichia coli is the most common cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children, and
yet the underlying mechanisms of virulence and antibiotic resistance and the overall …

Background Transferrable mechanisms of quinolone resistance (TMQR) can lead to
fluoroquinolone non-susceptibility in addition to chromosomal mechanisms. Some evidence …

Introduction Although extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)–producing Enterobacterales
are a public health problem in the Arabian Peninsula, data on the molecular characteristic of …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a concern in medical care for children who have high
burden of infectious diseases. We investigated the prevalence of bacterial species and their …

2020 at 6 US sites. Among 159 CRE cases in children (median age 5 years), CRE was
isolated from urine for 131 (82.4%) and blood from 20 (12.6%). Annual CRE incidence rate …

Introduction Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are not commonly prescribed in children, yet the
increasing incidence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Enterobacterales (Ent) infections in this …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Limited data are available on the contemporary
epidemiology, clinical management, and health care utilization for pediatric urinary tract …