Pandrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: a systematic review of current epidemiology, prognosis and treatment options

S Karakonstantis, EI Kritsotakis… - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background The literature on the epidemiology, mortality and treatment of pandrug-resistant
(PDR) Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) is scarce, scattered and controversial. Objectives To …

Melioidosis: clinical impact and public health threat in the tropics

R Perumal Samy, BG Stiles, G Sethi… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
This review briefly summarizes the geographical distribution and clinical impact of
melioidosis, especially in the tropics. Burkholderia pseudomallei (a gram-negative …

Performance evaluation of Active Melioidosis Detect-Lateral Flow Assay (AMD-LFA) for diagnosis of melioidosis in endemic settings with limited resources

T Shaw, C Tellapragada, V Ke, DP AuCoin… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Melioidosis is a fatal infection caused by the soil saprophyte Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Early diagnosis and befitting medical management can significantly influence the clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Pitfalls and optimal approaches to diagnose melioidosis

PV Kingsley, G Arunkumar, M Tipre, M Leader… - Asian Pacific Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Melioidosis is a severe and fatal infectious disease in the tropics and subtropics. It presents
as a febrile illness with protean manifestation ranging from chronic localized infection to …

Diagnostic accuracy of the InBiOS AMD rapid diagnostic test for the detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei antigen in grown blood culture broth

M Peeters, P Chung, H Lin, K Mortelmans… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
To assess the diagnostic and operational performance of the InBiOS AMD rapid diagnostic
test (RDT)(Seattle, USA) for the detection of B. pseudomallei in grown blood culture broth …

Antibiotic stewardship in a tertiary care hospital of a developing country: establishment of a system and its application in a unit—GASP Initiative

N Shafiq, M Praveen Kumar, V Gautam, H Negi, R Roat… - Infection, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Despite the proven benefits of antimicrobial stewardship, models for executing the
same in the developing countries are sparse. The present study highlights the approaches …

Implications of environmental and pathogen-specific determinants on clinical presentations and disease outcome in melioidosis patients

T Shaw, C Tellapragada, A Kamath… - PLoS Neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Melioidosis is gaining recognition as an emerging infectious disease with
diverse clinical manifestations and high-case fatality rates worldwide. However, the …

Seroprevalence of Burkholderia pseudomallei among Adults in Coastal Areas in Southwestern India

KE Vandana, C Mukhopadhyay… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Although melioidosis, is an important disease in many Southeast Asian
countries and Australia, there is limited data on its prevalence and disease burden in India …

[HTML][HTML] Viperatoxin-II: A novel viper venom protein as an effective bactericidal agent

RP Samy, BG Stiles, A Chinnathambi, ME Zayed… - FEBS open bio, 2015 - Elsevier
Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have become a
rising threat to public health. There is an urgent need for development of promising new …

Neurological melioidosis presenting as rhombencephalitis, optic neuritis, and scalp abscess with meningitis: a case series from Southern India

A Chatterjee, K Saravu, C Mukhopadhyay… - Neurology …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Melioidosis is an under recognized infectious disease which may rarely present with
neurological involvement. Neurological melioidosis has protean manifestations, and in this …