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Europe has taken many political actions since 1999 to better control antimicrobial resistance and use, including two European Council Recommendations and actions taken by numerous European Union (EU) presidencies. These...
BACKGROUND: By varying the collected blood volume and storage temperature of the blood culture bottles prior to entry in an automated blood culture system, growth of organisms will be affected.
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Rapidly growing mycobacteria are ubiquitous in the environment and are increasingly being recognized as opportunistic pathogens. Recently, a new species, Mycobacteium conceptionense, has been validated from the Mycobacterium fortuitum third...
Shigella bacteremia is rare, occurring mainly in children. Shigella species often cause diarrhea or gastrointestinal inflammation in humans and are rarely associated with bacteremia. This report describes an unusual case...
BACKGROUND: Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B streptococcus, GBS) is known to be the leading cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis in the United States and Europe. In addition, GBS infection has...