ALLMedicine™ Blood Culture Center

Nov 30th, 2021 - Typhoid is an endemic in Fiji with increases observed since the early 2000s and frequent outbreaks reported. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of currently available typhoid rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) (TUBEX, Typhidot Rapid, and Test-It assay...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Very preterm/very low birth weight (VP/VLBW) newborns can have lifelong morbidities, as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Clinicians have no markers to discriminate which among those individuals will develop later ADHD, based only o...

Nov 24th, 2021 - Invasive candidiasis is a serious infection caused by yeasts of the genus Candida sp. Their incidence is increasing, particularly in intensive care. The prognosis is severe and depends on the early initiation of adequate antifungal treatment. At p...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - Researchers in previous studies suggest that the clinical yield of follow-up blood cultures (FUBCs) is low in infants with bacteremic urinary tract infection (UTI) because persistent bacteremia is rare; however, no researchers have analyzed the pr...

Nov 23rd, 2021 - Empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics are routinely administered for short durations to children with suspected bacteremia while awaiting blood culture results. Our aim for this study was to estimate the proportion of broad-spectrum antibiotic use ...

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Nov 24th, 2021 - Invasive candidiasis is a serious infection caused by yeasts of the genus Candida sp. Their incidence is increasing, particularly in intensive care. The prognosis is severe and depends on the early initiation of adequate antifungal treatment. At p...

Nov 3rd, 2021 - Bacteremia and fungemia are severe complications, sometimes life-threatening, of every sepsis. During septicemia, every hour matters to start an appropriate antibiotic or antifungal treatment as every hour of delay is associated to higher death ra...

Oct 4th, 2021 - A new generation of typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) have been shown to be safe and provide long-lasting immunity in children. In India, Typbar TCV Vi-TT (Vi capsular polysaccharide conjugated with tetanus toxoid protein) is manufactured by Bhara...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - PMX versus SS (polymyxin B versus septic shock) is a single-center, historic, randomized clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of polymyxin B columns (PMX 20R, Toray) in adult patients with severe endotoxemia for the prevention and...

Sep 13th, 2021 - n pediatric patients with solid tumors, chemotherapy for radical treatment is generally based on monitoring white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets with repeated blood tests during treatment due to bone marrow depression. Early blood cul...

Aug 26th, 2021 - A short time to positivity (TTP), the period from incubation to blood culture positivity, may help predict mortality rates for patients with Enterococcus faecalis and vancomycin-sensitive E faecium (VSEfm) bloodstream infections (BSIs), but it is ...

Aug 13th, 2021 - The long-anticipated American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for the treatment of well-appearing febrile infants have arrived, and key points include updated guidance for cerebrospinal fluid testing and urine cultures, according to Robert Pantel...

Jun 3rd, 2021 - Bacterial co-infections from COVID-19 were rare, few were of clinical importance and most were secondary infections, researchers found in a prospective cohort study in the U.K.. Out of over 8,600 patients with microbiologic culture results, 1,107 ...

May 17th, 2021 - Selective use of antibiotics based on birth circumstances may reduce unnecessary antibiotic exposure for preterm infants at risk of early-onset sepsis, based on data from 340 preterm infants at a single center. Preterm infants born because of pret...

May 13th, 2021 - Selective use of antibiotics based on birth circumstances may reduce unnecessary antibiotic exposure for preterm infants at risk of early-onset sepsis, based on data from 340 preterm infants at a single center. Dr.