Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 27
PhD Thesis
Escherichia coli infection: mechanisms and rapid detection of resistance to the association of ß-lactams with ß-lactamase inhibitors, and impact of the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic on the morbidity and mortality of intra-abdominal infection
(2023-11-03)
Infections by Escherichia coli in human beings produce a significant disease burden, with important morbidity and mortality, and the increasing resistance to antimicrobials is a challenge for choosing the more effective ...
Article
Quantitative Real-Time PCR for Detection of Acinetobacter baumannii Colonization in the Hospital Environment
(American Society of Microbiology, 2012)
A real-time PCR assay was developed for detecting the presence of Acinetobacter baumannii on hospital equipment and compared to conventional bacterial culture using 100 hospital environmental samples. The real-time PCR ...
Article
Characteristics and Outcome of Streptococcus pneumoniae Endocarditis in the XXI Century. A Systematic Review of 111 Cases (2000–2013)
(Wolters Kluwer, 2015)
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infrequent cause of severe infectious endocarditis (IE). The aim of our study was to describe the epidemiology, clinical and microbiological characteristics, and outcome of a series of cases ...
Article
Clinical Features and Outcomes of Streptococcus anginosus Group Infective Endocarditis: A Multicenter Matched Cohort Study
(Oxford University Press, 2021-06)
Background Although Streptococcus anginosus group (SAG) endocarditis is considered a severe disease associated with abscess formation and embolic events, there is limited evidence to support this assumption. Methods We ...
Article
Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Treatment vs Hospitalization for Infective Endocarditis: Validation of the OPAT-GAMES Criteria
(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2022)
Background. Outpatient parenteral antibiotic treatment (OPAT) programs are increasingly used to manage infective endocarditis (IE), but current criteria for indicating OPAT are markedly conservative. We aimed to investigate ...
Article
Assessing the Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages and Mutations on Patient Survival
(MDPI, 2022)
Objectives: More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 still remains a global public health problem. Successive waves of infection have produced new SARS-CoV-2 variants with new mutations for which the ...
Article
In vitro and in vivo virulence study of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from the Andalusian outbreak in 2019
(MDPI, 2023-01-12)
In 2019, the biggest listeriosis outbreak by Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in the South of Spain was reported, resulting in the death of three patients from 207 confirmed cases. One strain, belonging to clonal complex 388 ...
Article
Clinical and prognostic differences between methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis
(Biomed Central LTD, 2020)
Background: S. aureus (SA) infective endocarditis (IE) has a very high mortality, attributed to the age and comorbidities of patients, inadequate or delayed antibiotic treatment, and methicillin resistance, among other ...
Article
MDR Shigella sonnei in Spain: an ever-evolving emerging threat?
(Oxford University Press, 2022-09-05)
Background Seven CTX-M-27-producing Shigella sonnei strains were isolated at the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (Seville, Spain) microbiology service from October to November 2021. Objectives To offer extensive ...
Patent. Invention
Kit y método de detección rápida de bacterias resistentes a las combinaciones de antibiótico β-lactámico con un inhibidor de β- lactamasa, y de la resistencia de expectro extendido a los β-lactámicos en aislados clínicos
(Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), 2020-12-24)
Método de identificación de aislados bacterianos resistentes a las combinaciones de antibiótico β-lactámico con inhibidores de β-lactamasa, capaces de hidrolizar el anillo β- lactámico de una combinación de un antibiótico ...