Real-time PCR has revolutionized the way clinical microbiology laboratories diagnose many
human microbial infections. This testing method combines PCR chemistry with fluorescent …

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and certain gram-negative bacilli …

The frequency of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections continues to
grow in hospital-associated settings and, more recently, in community settings in the United …

Abstract The Antimicrobial Availability Task Force (AATF) of the Infectious Diseases Society
of America (IDSA) has viewed with concern the decreasing investment by major …

Background. Recent worldwide reports of community-onset skin abscesses, outbreaks of
furunculosis, and severe pneumonia associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …

Polyoxazolines of various architectures and chemical functionalities can be prepared in a
living and therefore controlled manner via cationic ring-opening polymerisation. They have …

This chapter discusses mainly those Gram‐positive cocci that were members of the former
family Micrococcaceae prior to its redefinition. The genera have now been rearranged in …

This study examines in vitro antimicrobial resistance data from Escherichia coli isolates
obtained from urine samples of US outpatients between 2000 and 2010 using The …

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, first identified just over 4 decades ago, has
undergone rapid evolutionary changes and epidemiologic expansion. It has spread beyond …

Background The occurrence and undesirable complications from health care–associated
infections (HAIs) have been well recognized in the literature for the last several decades …