Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health.1,2 In Italy, the issue of antimicrobial resistance is…

In critically ill patients, colonisation by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria is a significant risk factor for the development of subsequent infections…

There is an increasing incidence of life-threatening systemic mycoses, specifically fulminant infections by the Candida species in hospitalised patients…

Perhaps the most significant development in clinical bacteriology over the last decade has been the global proliferation of Enterobacterales with…

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a common disease state observed in people who inject drugs (PWID), with a 50–100 times higher incidence in PWID than the…

UK Escherichia coli (E. coli) sepsis rates have been rising for the last 20 years, however the reason behind the consistent year on year increase is an…

Sepsis remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with high morbidity and mortality rates.1 Early and appropriate antimicrobial therapy is…

Schistosomiasis is currently the second most common parasitosis in the world, following malaria, in terms of morbidity and mortality…

The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm)-carriers admitted to two of the hospitals…