Depending on the site of infection and a patient's comorbid conditions, mortality related to infections caused by gram-negative bacilli ranges from 20% to 60%.

A direct smear shows many large, gram-negative encapsulated bacilli. The organism can be recovered in pure culture by mouse inoculation or by culture of the sputum on blood-agar plates.

Seven days of antibiotics was noninferior to 14 days for treating Gram-negative bloodstream infections, supporting shorter ...

Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of patients with healthcare-acquired multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli: a retrospective study from a tertiary care hospital ...

Deletion of these enzymes results in greater susceptibility of Gram-negative bacilli to human serum in vitro and attenuated virulence in vivo. [72, 73] Although scientifically this approach is ...

Purulence and bacteria in Gram stain of bronchopulmonary secretions are considered signs of respiratory infection, and medical decisions are made on the assumption that they are predictors of ...

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 ...

Blood cultures drawn on day 12 and performed within the UTHCI revealed growth of a gram-negative bacterium resistant to ampicillin, ciprofloxacin, and third-generation cephalosporins but sensitive ...

Clostridium perfringens is a bacteria widely found in beef and poultry. Learn more about the symptoms after infection and how you can prevent its spread.

The study shows that fibrin, a key product of the blood clotting process, is critical for host defense against Yersinia enterocolitica, a gram-negative bacterium that causes sepsis in humans and ...

Risk of all-cause mortality was similar in patients with uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia who switched early to oral antibiotics from IV antibiotics, according to retrospective, cohort study.

University of Michigan researchers use a unique barcoding system to track K. pneumoniae bacteria as it moved throughout the body.