A total of 17 patients with infections due to a variety of gram-negative bacilli were treated with penicillin G in quantities ranging from 20,000,000 to 80,000,000 units per day.

Some gram-negative bacilli, or GNB, are inherently resistant to certain antibiotics. Others acquire resistance spontaneously due to random mutations, as well as by transference of resistance genes ...

Sidebar: Key Issues. The emergence of Acinetobacter baumannii as a cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia and the increasing rates of infections with other multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli ...

Bloodstream Infections: Gaps in Knowledge. Gram-negative bacteremia accounts for up to half of all bloodstream infections, yet little is known about the shortest effective duration of therapy, and ...