A retrospective study evaluates the use of antibiotic lock therapy as a catheter-sparing strategy in pediatric patients with hematologic and oncologic diseases.

Antibiotic synergism refers to the situation in which two or more antimicrobial agents, when used in combination, produce a bactericidal effect greater than the sum of their individual activities.

A randomized trial involving gram-negative bacterial bloodstream infections found that rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) was not superior to usual testing in terms of clinical outcomes.

† VIMs are made up of 266 amino acid residues with the exception of VIM-7 (265 residues) and VIM-18 (262 residues). VIM-21, -22 and -27 have been assigned in the Lahey Clinic [201], but there are no ...

• Require X (hemin) and/or V (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) factors for growth • Responsible for 0.5–1% of all cases of IE • Haemophilus aphrophilus is the most common species responsible for IE ...