Baindara, Piyush Chakraborty, Ranadhir Holliday, Zachary M. Mandal, Santi M. Schrum, Adam G.
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New Microbes and New Infections
• Probiotics are known as helpful live bacteria that give medical advantages to the host when expended or administered in tolerable amounts. • The study summarizes the embedded cross-road between gut and lung microbiota. • Probiotics are one of the significant solutions to improve gut health or dysbiosis created by diverse means including viral inf...
Meyer Sauteur, P.M. Kleger, G.-R. Albrich, W.C.
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New Microbes and New Infections
A previously healthy 30-year-old woman developed severe ARDS at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 infection was suspected, but testing was negative. Mycoplasma pneumoniae was detected by PCR in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and blood. This case illustrates that M. pneumoniae infection can progress to septicemia and ARDS with severe ...
Lounis, M
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New microbes and new infections
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was reported in Algeria on 25 February 2020. Since then the number of positive cases has reached 42 619, and 1465 deaths have occurred. The current manuscript aims to describe epidemiological indicators and the measures implemented to halt the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in Algeria. This work showed that...
Pan, Y.-Q. Bahoussi, A.N. Guo, F. Xing, L.
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New Microbes and New Infections
Two major locally transmitted outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 occurred in China, one in Wuhan from December 2019 to April 2020, another in Beijing-Xinfadi in June 2020. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolated from these two outbreaks can be distinguished by a conserved pyrimidine nucleotide located at nucleotide position 241 ...
Assoumou-Ella, G.
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New Microbes and New Infections
We analyse the impact of total population containment on the evolution of the growth rate of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by controlling the results by the situation observed in a country that has not applied this measure. We conducted a study of four European countries, England, Belgium, France and Italy, taking Sweden as...
Goudarzi, M. Navidinia, M. Dadashi, M. Hashemi, A. Pouriran, R.
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New Microbes and New Infections
There is a lack of information concerning mecC clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains throughout the world. In the present survey, 345 MRSA strains were characterized by antimicrobial susceptibility testing and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec element (SCC mec ) typing. mecC -positive MRSA isolates were characteri...
Radcliffe, C. Peaper, D. Grant, M.
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New Microbes and New Infections
• Systematic review of Nocardia veterana infections. • First report of N. veterana soft tissue abscess. • N. veterana typically causes pulmonary infections in immunocompromised hosts.
Tehrani, H.A. Darnahal, M. Nadji, S.A. Haghighi, S.
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New Microbes and New Infections
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected more than 40 million people worldwide. Some patients had episodes of symptom recurrence after the first episode of infection with variable intervals. There are multiple issues and hypotheses about re-infection or re-activation of the virus, especially in immunocompromised patients. In this p...
Kerkhof, Pieter-Jan Van Den Abeele, Anne-Marie Strubbe, B. Vogelaers, Dirk Vandamme, Peter Houf, Kurt
An immunocompetent patient without a history of recent travel or animal exposure developed persistent abdominal bloating and cramps without diarrhoea or fever. Negative additional investigations excluded gastritis, infectious colitis, inflammatory bowel disease and neoplasia, but routine stool culture detected a Campylobacter-like organism. The iso...
Zayet, S. Zaghdoudi, A. Harrabi, H. Goubantini, A. Tiouiri Benaissa, H.
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Devic's Optic neuromyelitis (OND) is a very rare disease defined as a central nervous system (CNS) inflammation resulting in optic neuritis and/or myelitis. The discovery of a highly specific serum autoantibody biomarker for the diagnosis has triggered a great interest in conducting further research into this disease. The association of OND with Tu...
