Anaerobic Infections

McNeil et al. from Texas Children'sHospital studied 95 children seen between 2011 to 2018 with complications of otitis media and sinus...

Increased Antimicrobial Resistance against metronidazole and carbapenem in clinical anaerobic isolates from Pakistan was recently reporte...

Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) are the most severe and rapidly progressing class of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). T...

Kim et al. analyzed the incidence and risk factors related to mortality and assess clinical outcomes of anaerobic bacteremia during 2012 i...

The World Health Organization (WHO) approved expanded use of an Israeli developed device that allows medical workers to perform “painl...

Surgical removal of the inflamed appendix has been the standard of care for over a 120 years.  More than 300,000 appendectomies are perfor...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease which increases with age and is characterized by the salient inflammatory fe...

Emerging studies have suggested that pathogenic and non-pathogenic gut bacteria might influence mood-related symptoms and even behavior ...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders,   characterized by difficulties in social interactions, verbal and non-v...

Numerous cancers have been linked to microorganisms. Warren et al. from British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada; investigated ...

Propionibacterium acnes is a colonizer of the lipid-rich sebaceous glands of the skin. The pathogenicity of P. acnes has long been restri...

Kaposi's sarcoma   (KS) is a tumor caused by human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8, also known as  Kaposi's sarcoma -associated herpesvirus,...

Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection is difficult to treat, and failure rates for antibiotic therapy are high. Fecal microbiota ...

B. fragilis strains, especially in the US, are virtually always susceptible to metronidazole, carbapenems, and beta-lactam antibiotics. A...

In 2010 the American Surgical Society and American Society of Infectious Diseases have updated their   guidelines for the treatment of abd...

Foot infections are a frequent and serious problem in individuals with diabetes. The Infectious Diseases Society of America recently publ...

Solid tumor accounts for 90% of all cancers. The current treatment approach for most solid tumors is surgery; however it is limited to ea...

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) was recently recognized as a new post surgical complication of laryngectomy . NF is an unusual, life threatenin...

Changes in the microbial flora on the oral mucosa after cancerous alteration may lead to both local and systemic infections. Researchers fr...

A meta-analysis published in the British Medical Journal of four randomised controlled trials including 900 adult patients ( > 18 years ...

Several studies investigated the effects of exposure to direct and indirect smoking on the oro-pharyngeal colonization with potential patho...