ECA 2022 2022 - 44 articles
Online | 15–30 June 2022
Volume Editors:
Manuel Simões, University of Porto, Portugal
Marc Maresca, Aix-Marseille University, France
Acinetobacter baumannii is an aerobic Gram-negative bacterium which causes facultative hospital infections and, in settings such as Greece, exhibits high resistance rates against most antimicrobial agents [...]
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of hospitalization in the Brazilian Unified Health System, with a mortality rate of 18% in children under 5 years of age. Therefore, there is a need for an effective treatment, including antibio...
Serratia marcescens is a bacterial species associated with different types of infections, including hospital-acquired infections [...]
The multi-resistance presented by P. aeruginosa has greatly increased due to the presence of genes for carbapenemases such as blaKPC. The dissemination of this gene has been associated with the Tn4401, the main mobile genetic element that carries bla...
Bloodstream infections, which result from introducing contaminated implants or prostheses to a patient’s body, are commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus strains. The occurrence of staphylococcal-related bloodstream infection correlates with...
Staphylococcus species are considered important members of the normal skin microbiota, in addition to being common pathogens in human and animal infections. In addition to S. aureus, other members of the genus are now widely-recognized as pathogens,...
A drug is defined as a substance capable of influencing biological functions through chemical reactions, either by agonism or antagonism, to achieve the desired therapeutic effect. During this process, several pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic even...
Patients receiving hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) are prone to develop invasive infections due to disease and transplantation-related immunosuppression [...]
Introduction: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common infections both in the community and in the hospital setting. Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the etiological spectrum and antimicrobial resistance of the most freq...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common community and hospital-acquired infections. Rapid diagnosis and adequate etiological therapy are factors with direct impacts on the morbidity and mortality associated with these infections. T...
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