Articles Tagged With: Pseudomonas
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A Concise Tool to Guide the Care of Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
While patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) commonly present to the ED, obtaining a proper diagnosis and determining the best treatment course is not always clear-cut. For one thing, while there are many evidence-based guidelines for CAP, many of these tools are more than 50 pages long, making it difficult to integrate them into clinical practice.
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Monotherapy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacteremia — Which β-Lactam Antibiotic Is Best?
No significant difference in the mortality of patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia was seen regardless of treatment with a carbapenem, ceftazidime, or piperacillin-tazobactam. However, the emergence of resistance occurred significantly more frequently in those treated with a carbapenem — largely related to imipenem use.
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Infectious Disease
In this feature, brief items, primarily gleaned from abstracts or articles in journals and other resources not commonly perused by most US infectious disease physicians, will be presented, usually without comment. -
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