Tag: urinary tract infection
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Hypervirulent Klebsiella: the next pandemic?
Last week, ECDC issued a risk assessment on the emergence of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST23 carrying carbapenemase genes in Europe, concluding that “there is a possibility of potentially untreatable infections in previously healthy adults”.
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Antibiotics do more than causing resistance
A couple of days ago in a study on continuous antibiotic prophylaxis in children with severe vesicoureteral reflux was published in the NEJM. An international open-label RCT with 292 kids enrolled over a period of (!) 7 years.