Anodized CuO Nanoflakes for the Antibacterial and Antifungal Applications by Niharika MP, B. Manmadha Rao

“…The nanoflakes of CuO displayed excellent inhibitory activity towards the gram-positive bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative bacteria including E. coli, Shigella dysenteriae, and fungus Candida albicans.…”
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Phenotypic detection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in clinical isolates at a tertiary care hospital by Astha Sinha, Mamta Gour, Riti Jain Seth

“…Out of 379 Enterobacterales, 70 (18.47%) were CRE, out of which maximum carbapenem resistance of 23.53% was shown by Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates. The maximum carbapenem resistance was seen in the age group of 16–45 years and the most number of CRE isolates were from ICUs. …”
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Clustering Large-Scale Biomedical Data to Model Dynamic Accumulation Processes in Disease Progression and Anti-Microbial Resistance Evolution by Kazeem A. Dauda, Olav N. L. Aga, Iain G. Johnston

“…We demonstrate this ‘Cluster-based HyperHMM’ (CHyperHMM) pipeline for synthetic data, clinical data on disease progression in severe malaria, and genomic data for anti-microbial resistance evolution in Klebsiella pneumoniae, reflecting two global health threats.…”
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COVID-19 in Coincidence with Transient Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis in an Infant by Seyedeh-Kiana Razavi-Amoli, Hamid Mohammadjafari, Daniel Zamanfar, Mohammad Reza Navaeifar, Zahra Sadati-Lamradi, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai

“…Blood culture was positive for Klebsiella pneumoniae. Amikacin and cefotaxime were ordered. Although diarrhea and dehydration gradually improved, venous blood gas still showed metabolic acidosis. …”
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Biological activities of silver nanoparticles from Nothapodytes nimmoniana (Graham) Mabb. fruit extracts by G. Mahendran, B.D. Ranjitha Kumari

“…Further, fruit extract and AgNPs were evaluated total phenolic, tannin and flavonoid contents and were subjected to assess their antioxidant potential using various in vitro systems such as using 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH), 2,2′-azinobis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS), metal chelating, phosphomolybdenum and ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) activities and antimicrobial activity against Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. …”
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Essential Oil Yield Pattern and Antibacterial and Insecticidal Activities of Trachyspermum ammi and Myristica fragrans by Rajgovind Soni, Gaurav Sharma, Nakuleshwar Dut Jasuja

“…Further, individual EO and combination of essential oil were examined for antibacterial activity against three Gram (−) bacterial strains (E. coli-MTCC 443, P. vulgaris-MTCC 1771, and K. pneumoniae-MTCC number 7028) and three Gram (+) bacterial strains (S. aureus-MTCC 3381, B. subtilis-MTCC 10619, and B. megaterium-MTCC 2412) by well agar diffusion method. …”
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Epidemiology of Antibiotic Resistance in Culture-positive Hospitalized Patients in Selected Hospitals in Khartoum, Sudan by Nagwa M. El Amin, Einas A. Osman, Leena Al-Hassan, Ihab B Abdalrahman

“…Results: Eight bacterial species were isolated: Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Streptococcus spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas spp., Escherichia coli, Proteus spp., and Acinetobacter spp. …”
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Ethanol-Induced Alterations of T Cells and Cytokines after Surgery in a Murine Infection Model by Nadine Lanzke, Mario Menk, Clarissa von Haefen, Lilit Sargsyan, Bianca Scharf, Klaus-Dieter Wernecke, Claudia D. Spies

“…On day 14, a median laparotomy was performed and animals were challenged with Klebsiella pneumoniae intranasally. Bacterial load was determined in lungs and blood. …”
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A systematic review of Gram-negative bacterial prevalence and antibiotic resistance in pediatric sepsis: Insights from pediatric intensive care units by Ghada Haidar Ali, Mohammed Abdullah Albariqi, Ahmed Hassan Alhazmi, Abdulrahman Hassan Alasmari, Saeed Mari Nasser

“…Common pathogens included Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, and Acinetobacter baumannii. …”
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Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi in Kolkata, India, and In Vitro Experiments on Effect of Combined Chemotherapy by Shyamapada Mandal, Manisha DebMandal, Nishith Kumar Pal

“…Typhi, and the other enteric bacteria like Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Proteus vulgaris were found to be the potential source of dissemination of such plasmids into S. …”
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Profile of outer membrane proteins of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacilli in Ghana by Francis S. Codjoe, Fleischer C. N. Kotey, Eric S. Donkor

“…Sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis for Escherichia coli, Klebsiella aerogenes, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and other Enterobacterales had OmpC and OmpF absent or markedly reduced compared to the control strains. …”
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Biogenic Synthesis of Copper and Silver Nanoparticles Using Green Alga Botryococcus braunii and Its Antimicrobial Activity by Anju Arya, Khushbu Gupta, Tejpal Singh Chundawat, Dipti Vaya

“…Furthermore, these biosynthesized nanoparticles were found to be highly toxic against two Gram-negative bacterial strains Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MTCC 441) and Escherichia coli (MTCC 442), two Gram-positive bacterial strains Klebsiella pneumoniae (MTCC 109) and Staphylococcus aureus (MTCC 96), and a fungal strain Fusarium oxysporum (MTCC 2087). …”
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Helmet Ventilation in a Child with COVID-19 and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome by Ke-Yun Chao, Chao-Yu Chen, Xiao-Ru Ji, Shu-Chi Mu, Yu-Hsuan Chien

“…The COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test and urine antigen test for Streptococcus pneumoniae were both positive, and sputum culture yielded Pseudomonas aeruginosa. …”
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Bacterial Culture of Tear Duct Infections Secondary to Congenital Nasolacrimal Duct Obstructions by Weiming Yang, Li Shen, Anken Wang, Meiyan Li, Chenhao Yang

“…The most prevalent Gram-positive bacteria were Streptococcus viridans (67 isolates, 30%), followed by Staphylococcus aureus (36 isolates, 16.1%) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (5 isolates, 2.2%). The most prevalent Gram-negative bacteria were Neisseria (nonpathogenic) (25 isolates, 11.2%), followed by Escherichia coli (16 isolates, 7.2%) and Haemophilus influenzae (16 eyes, 7.2%). …”
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Urinary tract infections in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis, listed for liver transplantation by P. D. Bessonov, I. V. Borzunov, E. N. Bessonova

“…Esсheriсhia сoli и Klebsiella pneumoniae were the most common infectious agents in liver cirrhosis patients. …”
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Synthesis and Microbiological Activity of Some Newly Synthesized Derivatives of 2-Oxo-2H-chromen-2-one by Majlinda Daci-Ajvazi, Sevdije Govori, Shuhreta Omeragiq

“…Based on the biological activity of chromene-2-ones and heterocyclic compounds condensed in position 3 and 4, we also studied microbiological activity of these new compounds (5-8), against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Aeromonas Salmonicida, Bacillus spp and some of them exhibited significant activity.…”
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The use of graphics accelerators to detect functional signals in the regulatory regions of prokaryotic genes by O. V. Vishnevsky, A. V. Bocharnikov, A. A. Romanenko

“…Using the proposed approach, we analyzed the regulatory regions of B. subtilis, E. coli, H. pylori, M. gallisepticum, M. genitalium and M. pneumoniae genes. Sets of degenerate motifs have been identified for each species of prokaryotes. …”
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Molecular Characteristics and Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Klebsiella Isolates in Mthatha, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa by Sandeep Vasaikar, Larry Obi, Isaac Morobe, Mary Bisi-Johnson

“…The cultured Klebsiella isolates were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility tests and the polymerase chain reaction of blaCTX-M, blaTEM, blaSHV, blaKPC, and blaNDM genes. Overall K. pneumoniae were the majority with 169 (83.7%) species isolates, followed by K. oxytoca with 29 (14.4%), while K. ozaenae and Raoultella ornithinolytica were 2 (0.9%) each. …”
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Effect of biannual azithromycin on respiratory pathogens among symptomatic children: results from the randomised Macrolides Oraux pour Réduire les Décès avec un Oeil sur la Résista... by Jie Liu, Thomas M Lietman, Jeremy D Keenan, Kieran S O'Brien, Elodie Lebas, Amza Abdou, Benjamin F Arnold, James A Platts-Mills, Eric R Houpt, Stephanie A Brennhofer, Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade, Ramatou Maliki, Jixian Zhang, Suzanne Stroup, Suporn Pholwat, Ahmed M Arzika

“…Swabs were tested by quantitative PCR using a customised TaqMan Array Card that included assays for 19 respiratory pathogens.Results Nasopharyngeal detection of Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis and Streptococcus pneumoniae was common in both azithromycin and placebo communities. …”
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Synthesis of Transition Metal-Nanochitosan Composites Using Ni, Cu, Zn, and Ag Metal Ions and Applications as Antibacterial Agents by Khoirina Dwi Nugrahaningtyas, Eny Kusrini, Salwa Salsabila, Dina Fitriana, Anwar Usman, Triana Kusumaningsih, Sri Juari Santoso

“…The test for antibacterial activity against gram-positive (Streptococcus pyogenes ATCC 19615 and Bacillus cereus ATCC 10556) and gram-negative (Escherichia coli ATCC 11229 and Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 13883) bacterial strains was carried out using the well-diffusion method. …”
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