How To Use Gram-negative In A Sentence
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The causative organism of gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is a fastidious gram-negative diplococcus, which closely resembles the related human pathogen, Neisseria meningitidis, as well as several commensal species.
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The incidence of Gram-negative bacteremia was significantly higher in bacteremic ICU patients with septic shock than in those with sepsis or severe sepsis.
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With the continued use of colistin for treatment of infection with various multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens, it is likely that we will see an increasing number of instances of both de novo emergence of resistance and nosocomial spread.
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Clinical features of pneumonic plague include fever, cough with mucopurulent sputum (gram-negative rods may be seen on gram stain), hemoptysis and chest pain.
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But now, says the Lancet paper, clinical microbiologists increasingly agree that multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, which thrive in the gut, pose the greatest risk to public health.
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The aminopenicillins were the first penicillins discovered to be active against gram-negative rods such as E. coli and H. influenzae.
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According to an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) rapid-response team, a large proportion of the wounds treated at their field hospital in Haiti were infected with Gram-negative pathogens.
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Also known as gram-negative bacteremia and gram-positive bacteremia, sepsis occurs when infectious agents like bacteria or fungi or products of infection like bacterial toxins enter the body, most often through a wound or incision.
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Over the next five to six years, these new clinical trials will evaluate treatment alternatives for diseases for which antibiotics are prescribed most often, including acute otitis media (middle ear infections), community-acquired pneumonia and diseases caused by Gram-negative bacteria, which frequently are resistant to first-line antibiotics.
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Because of their extensive gram-negative coverage, quinolone antibiotics were initially used to treat urinary tract infections.
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A shunt infection can be devastating for the neonate or premature infant, especially when it involves gram-negative organisms.
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But now, says the Lancet paper, clinical microbiologists increasingly agree that multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, which thrive in the gut, pose the greatest risk to public health.
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Gram-negative streptococci and staphylococci can be distinguished by their characteristic appearance under high-powered magnification.
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Yesterday, the Health Ministry confirmed that the trainees at the academy were infected with bacterial meningitis caused by the gram-negative diplococci bacteria, which spreads through coughing or sneezing within a one-metre radius of an infected person.
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Children, patients who have diabetes, or patients who have immunodeficiencies are more susceptible to gram-negative infections and may require treatment with a second- or third-generation cephalosporin.
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N. meningitis is a Gram-negative, diplococci bacteria.
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The gram-negative bugs that pose the biggest threat include acinetobacter baumannii enterobacter aerogenes, and pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can attack through wounds, surgical incisions, central lines, respirators and catheters.
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A presumptive diagnosis can be made by finding gram-negative kidney-bean shaped diplococci within neutrophils in a urethral discharge.
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The proportion of gram-negative bacillus and E coli were increasing in total causative pathogens annually, coagulase negative staphylococcus was decreasing year by year.
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According to an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) rapid-response team, a large proportion of the wounds treated at their field hospital in Haiti were infected with Gram-negative pathogens.
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The second-generation quinolones have increased gram-negative activity, as well as some gram-positive and atypical pathogen coverage.
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Most worrisome, says Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Arjun Srinivasan, is that bacteria like acinetobacter are becoming resistant to the class of drugs known as carbapenems, considered a last line of defense for gram-negative organisms.
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Comparing pharmacodynamic guidance of therapy, based on the drug's effect on the body, versus standard of care for Gram-negative bacteremia
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Greece also doesn't have so-called Gram-negative bacteria with gene mutations known as NDM, IMP and OXA-48, which are common elsewhere, Pournaras said.
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Gram-negative folliculitis should be suspected if inflammatory acne worsens after several months of oral antibiotic therapy.
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KPC is part of the so-called Gram-negative group of bacteria, which also includes E. coli and Pseudomonas.
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There are many Gram-Negative bacteria such as Cyanobacteria, Spirochaetes, E-coli,
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Is this the perfect storm - an exploding population of opportunistic Gram-negative bacteria (some natural, some not), millions of gallons of food (oil) for the bacteria, and a susceptible population of stressed-out people?
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I am not a microbiologist, but my responsibilities at work often require that I understand the difference between a cocci and a rod, Gram-negative and a Gram-positive, and which organisms are "objectionable".
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a fastidious Gram-negative diplococcus which closely resembles the related human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis, as well as several commensal species.
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Helicobacter pylori is a spiral-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that colonizes the stomach in about 50% of all humans.
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Infectious-disease experts say the most worrisome of the gram-negative bacteria may be acinetobacter, which is commonly found in soil and water, and may be carried by up to 40% of people on their skin.
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