Titre : Poisson électrique

Poisson électrique : Questions médicales fréquentes

Termes MeSH sélectionnés :

Enterococcus
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Direct and residual antimicrobial effect of 2% chlorhexidine gel, double antibiotic paste and chitosan- chlorhexidine nanoparticles as intracanal medicaments against Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans in primary molars: an in-vitro study.

Thorough disinfection of root canals in primary molars may be complicated by the complex root canal morphology. This in-vitro study aimed to compare direct and residual antimicrobial effect of 2% chlo... Mesial roots of 63 mandibular second primary molars were infected with E. faecalis and C. albicans. Teeth were divided into 9 groups: Ia: (CS-CHX NPs), IIa: (CHX), IIIa: (DAP), IVa: chitosan nanoparti... CS-CHX NPs had the highest anticandidal effect which was comparable to CHX and significantly higher than other medicaments (p < 0.001) at both time points. CS-CHX NPs had the highest effect against E.... CSNPs and CHX combination showed a synergistic effect against both micro-organisms. CS-CHX NPs displayed a higher effect at a shorter period compared to other medicaments, yet its residual effect was ...

Epidemiological trends and susceptibility patterns of bloodstream infections caused by Enterococcus spp. in six German university hospitals: a prospectively evaluated multicentre cohort study from 2016 to 2020 of the R-Net study group.

To analyse recent epidemiological trends of bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by Enterococcus spp. In adult patients admitted to tertiary care centres in Germany.... Epidemiological data from the multicentre R-NET study was analysed. Patients presenting with E. faecium or E. faecalis in blood cultures in six German tertiary care university hospitals between Octobe... In the 4-year study period, 3001 patients with BSI due to Enterococcus spp. were identified. E. faecium was detected in 1830 patients (61%) and E. faecalis in 1229 patients (41%). Most BSI occurred in... This large multicentre study highlights an increase of BSI due to E. faecium, which was primarily driven by VRE. The high rates of hospital- and ICU-acquired VRE BSI point towards an important role of...

Clinical study on sequential treatment of severe diarrhea irritable bowel syndrome with precision probiotic strains transplantation capsules, fecal microbiota transplantation capsules and live combined bacillus subtilis and enterococcus faecium capsules.

To study the effect of precision probiotic strains transplantation capsules on diarrhea irritable bowel syndrome compared with fecal microbiota transplantation capsules and live combined bacillus subt... Two patients with severe irritable bowel syndrome were treated with precision probiotic strains transplantation capsules, fecal microbiota transplantation capsules and live combined bacillus subtilis ... It was found that the IBS-SSS score of patient case 1 decreased by 175 points and that of patient case 2 decreased by 100 points after treatment of precision probiotic strains transplantation capsules... precision probiotic strains transplantation capsules is more beneficial to improve the intestinal microbiota of patients than microbiota transplantation capsule and live combined bacillus subtilis and...

Introduction and spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) at a German tertiary care medical center from 2004 until 2010: a retrospective whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study of the molecular epidemiology of VREfm.

In most of Europe and especially in Germany, there is currently a concerning rise in the number of hospital-acquired infections due to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm). Therefore, the... Our analysis includes all available first VREfm isolates of each patient at our tertiary care center collected during the years 2004-2010. If available, additional consecutive VREfm isolates from some... VREfm isolates from 158 patients and 76 additional subsequent patient isolates were included in the analysis. Until 2006, detections of VREfm remained singular cases, followed by a peak in the number ... This retrospective study contributes significant knowledge about regional VREfm epidemiology from this early VREfm period in Germany. One remarkable finding is the striking dominance of vanB-positive ...

A novel combination of immobilized Enterococcus casseliflavus sp. nov. with silver nanoparticles into a reusable matrix of Ca-Alg beads as a new strategy for biotreatment of Disperse Blue 183: Insights into metabolic characterization, biotoxicity, and mutagenic properties.

Recent advances in immobilized biologic systems for decolorizing azo dyes are gaining great attention due to microorganisms like bacteria and nanoparticles that could stimulate decolorization. Enhance...

When it rains it pours: an increased prevalence of intestinal carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium related to higher use of oral vancomycin in a tertiary care Hungarian clinical center during the years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study aims to investigate the association between oral vancomycin consumption and intestinal vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus carriage in the pre- and COVID era in the clinical center of the Uni... This retrospective microbiological examination was carried out using electronically collected data, corresponding to the period between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2022, at the Department of Medica... There was a significant increase in the number of fecal vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus isolates throughout the study. The prevalence increased significantly during the years of the pandemic. The us... During the pandemic, intestinal VRE carriage among clinical center patients increased significantly, linked to increased oral vancomycin use. Different strains spread, with aminoglycoside resistance b...

Increasing trend of healthcare-associated infections due to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE-fm) paralleling escalating community-acquired VRE-fm infections in a medical center implementing strict contact precautions: An epidemiologic and pathogenic genotype analysis and its implications.

To clarify whether there were clandestine intra-hospital spreads of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE-fm) isolates that led to specific strain of VRE lingering in the hospital and/or deve... Despite implementing strict contact precautions for hospitalized patients with VRE-fm-infection/colonization, number of VRE-fm-HAIs in a medical centre in southern Taiwan were escalating in 2009-2019,... We analyzed epidemiologic data and genotypes of non-duplicate VRE-fm isolates each grown from a normally sterile site of 89 patients between December 2016 and October 2018; multilocus sequence typing ... Totally 13 sequence types (STs) were found, and the 3 leading STs were ST17 (44%), ST78 (37%), and ST18 (6%); 66 pulsotypes were generated by PFGE. Four VRE-fm isolates grouped as ST17/pulsotype S, 2 ... Despite possible small transitory clusters of intra-hospital VRE-fm spreads, there was no specific VRE-fm strain lingering in the hospital leading to increasing trend of VRE-fm-HAIs during the study p...