Background The burden of carbapenem resistance is not well studied in the Middle East.
We aimed to describe the molecular epidemiology and outcome of carbapenem-resistant …

Lactobacillus gasseri Causing Fournier's Gangrene Page 1 motherapy had to be
withheld for shorter periods. The patient continued to be febrile, the general condition …

Corynebacterium jeikeium (C. jeikeium) prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) are extremely rare.
Previously reported cases required total resection arthroplasty. We describe a case of C. …

… Author links open overlay panel Mohammed O. Qutub a , Jeffrey J. Germer b , Sjoerd PH
Rebers c , Jayawant N. Mandrekar b , Marcel GHM Beld c , Joseph DC Yao b …

Background Antimicrobial resistance is continuously increasing. Adding tazobactam to
ceftolozane improves the latter’s activity spectrum against resistant strains. We aimed to …

TaqMan hepatitis B virus (HBV) analyte-specific reagent (ASR; Roche Molecular Systems,
Inc., Branchburg, NJ) is designed for the quantification of HBV DNA in serum or plasma. The …

Objectives: To analyze the evolution of tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology in Saudi Arabia in
the 5 years following the implementation of the end-TB Strategy. Methods: A retrospective …

Mycobacterium riyadhense is a newly described slowly growing, non-tuberculous mycobacterium
species. We describe 2 new cases of Mycobacterium riyadhense infections presenting …

The past few years have seen a profound revolution in biological sciences. The enormous
advances in molecular biology are providing novel insights into the etiology and treatment of …

Clinical microbiology laboratories are faced with the challenge of accurately detecting
emerging antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens. In recent years, vancomycin resistant …