A 59-year-old man from India, who was living in Sweden, visited New Delhi in late 2007, where he was hospitalized for an infection and treated with an array of antibiotics. Once he was back in Sweden, in early 2008, he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection...
Results from this study demonstrated the infection burden for total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty increased over 6 years among international arthroplasty registries. “Despite efforts to try to reduce the incidence of periprosthetic infection, the most...
INTRODUCCIÓN El estrés oxidativo y las ROS (reactive oxygen species) se han descrito como un factor esencial en diversas enfermedades y, más recientemente, en la progresión de la osteoartritis (OA) (Fig. 1). El tratamiento actual de la OA combina estrategias...
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for very rapidly determining whether infection-causing bacteria are resistant or susceptible to antibiotics. The findings have now been published in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of...
ScienceDaily recently reported on new research led by Shiladitya Banerjee, an Assistant Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University, that reveals how some bacteria can adapt to long-term exposure to antibiotics by changing their shape. Adaptation is a...
As a result of the pandemic, a study shared by Becker’s Hospital Review estimates that US hospitals lost approximately $22.3B by delaying elective surgeries. Many hospitals were forced to pause these surgeries to ensure they had the resources needed to care for an...
