Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotic Resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was previously sensitive. Resistant organisms (they include bacteria, viruses and some parasi...

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Low-Chloride IV Fluid Linked to Lower Risk in ICU Patients

Intravenous fluids often contain relatively high concentrations of chloride; choosing chloride-poor alternatives may reduce the risk for acute kidney injury and the need for renal replacement therapy....

Antimicrobial Test Laboratories Emerges as Leading Provider of Virus Testing Services

Round Rock, TX (PRWEB) April 10, 2013 Antimicrobial Test Laboratories (ATL) - a contract microbiology lab founded in 2006 by microbiologist Dr. Benjamin Tanner - has experienced rapid growth of i...

Squaraine rotaxane shuttle as a ratiometric deep-red optical chloride sensor

Chloride ions are central to many biological processes and measuring the concentration of chloride ions in biological fluids can help diagnose a number of diseases, including cystic fibrosis. Scientis...

Lower use of chloride in intravenous fluids for critically ill patients associated with decreased risk of kidney injury

In a pilot study assessing the effect of different levels of chloride in intravenous fluids administered to critically ill patients in an intensive care unit, restricting the amount of chloride admini...

Reducing Chloride in IV Fluids May Improve Renal Outcomes

A new study suggests that chloride-restrictive intravenous fluid strategy could reduce acute kidney injury in the intensive care...

Chloride-restrictive intravenous strategy may decrease incidence of AKI among critically ill patients

In a pilot study assessing the effect of different levels of chloride in intravenous fluids administered to critically ill patients in an intensive care unit, restricting the amount of chloride admini...

Do it like the immune system: novel antimicrobials

Microbial infections are becoming unbeatable due to progressive mutations that lead to antimicrobial drug resistance. European scientists exploited the characteristics of novel antimicrobial compounds...

Human medicines European Public Assessment Report (EPAR): Methylthioninium chloride Proveblue, methylthioninium chloride, Revision: 2, Authorised

A simple colorimetric method for testing antimicrobial susceptibility of biofilmed bacteria.

This study introduces a simple colorimetric method which can measure the antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria in biofilms using trimethyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC) as an indicator of viable bacte...

Antimicrobial efficacy of 0.05% cetylpyridinium chloride mouthrinses.

AIMS: This study evaluated the antimicrobial activity of two commercially-available 0.05% cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) mouthrinses with or without alcohol and examined its antimicrobial activity on...

Comparative evaluation of the agar dilution and broth microdilution methods for antibiotic susceptibility testing of Helicobacter cinaedi.

We aimed to establish a broth microdilution method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of H. cinaedi and to assess the prevalence and mechanisms of fluoroquinolone resistance in Japanese clinical...

Quaternary Ammonium Salts and Their Antimicrobial Potential: Targets or Nonspecific Interactions?

For more than 50 years dequalinium chloride has been used successfully as an antiseptic drug and disinfectant, particularly for clinical purposes. Given the success of dequalinium chloride, several se...

The clinical relevance of microbiology specimens in orofacial abscesses of dental origin.

Most patients had been discharged from hospital before the results of their antimicrobial susceptibility testing were available, and even when they were available, for none did the result change their...