Browsing University of Galway Support Services by Subject "bacteremia"

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    • Clinical review: special populations - critical illness and pregnancy 

      Neligan, Patrick J; Laffey, John G (Springer Nature, 2011-01-01)
      Critical illness is an uncommon but potentially devastating complication of pregnancy. The majority of pregnancy-related critical care admissions occur postpartum. Antenatally, the pregnant patient is more likely to be ...

    • Epidemic multiple drug resistant salmonella typhimurium causing invasive disease in sub-saharan africa have a distinct genotype 

      Kingsley, R. A.; Msefula, C. L.; Thomson, N. R.; Kariuki, S.; Holt, K. E.; Gordon, M. A.; Harris, D.; Clarke, L.; Whitehead, S.; Sangal, V.; Marsh, K.; Achtman, M.; Molyneux, M. E.; Cormican, M.; Parkhill, J.; MacLennan, C. A.; Heyderman, R. S.; Dougan, G. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2009-11-09)
      Whereas most nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) are associated with gastroenteritis, there has been a dramatic increase in reports of NTS-associated invasive disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium ...

    • Linezolid lock prophylaxis of central venous catheter infection 

      Fennell, J. P.; O'Donohoe, M.; Cormican, M.; Lynch, M. (Microbiology Society, 2008-04-01)
      Central venous catheter (CVC)-related infections are a major problem for patients requiring long-term venous access and may result in frequent hospital admissions and difficulties in maintaining central venous access. ...

    • Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus as a uropathogen in an irish setting 

      Looney, Aisling T.; Redmond, Elaine J.; Davey, Naomi M.; Daly, Padraig J.; Troy, Carole; Carey, Brian F.; Cullen, Ivor M. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2017-04-01)
      Urinary tract infections are one of the most common infectious diseases diagnosed in the community and in the hospital setting. Their treatment is complicated by drug-resistant pathogens and the colonization by microbes ...

    • Redeploying β-lactam antibiotics as a novel antivirulence strategy for the treatment of methicillin-resistantstaphylococcus aureusinfections 

      Waters, Elaine M.; Rudkin, Justine K.; Coughlan, Simone; Clair, Geremy C.; Adkins, Joshua N.; Gore, Suzanna; Xia, Guoqing; Black, Nikki S.; Downing, Tim; O'Neill, Eoghan; Kadioglu, Aras; O'Gara, James P. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-11-14)
      Innovative approaches to the use of existing antibiotics is an important strategy in efforts to address the escalating antimicrobial resistance crisis. We report a new approach to the treatment of methicillin-resistant ...