By analyzing Escherichia coli (E. coli) genomes, researchers have shown that antimicrobial resistant bacteria and the genes ...

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The aims of this study were to search for the presence of bacterial and fungal growth in urine samples from cats with urethral obstruction, to identify the causative infectious agents, and to compare ...

Point-of-care urine dipstick demonstrated higher sensitivity (90.2%) and specificity (92.6%) than laboratory urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI) in febrile infants aged 2-6 months.

National Engineering Research Center for Biotechnology, College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211816, P.R. China State Key Laboratory of ...

Objectives To inform point-of-care test (POCT) development, we quantified the primary care demand for laboratory microbiology tests by describing their frequencies overall, frequencies of positives, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that multiple agencies are investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers at McDonald's. The agency said there ...

The rise in antibiotic resistance among gram-negative bacteria is due in part to the impermeable outer membrane (OM). Classically described as an asymmetric lipid membrane, recent evidence suggests ...

Sheffield Hallam University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. This bacteria has many different strains, most of which are friendly. So why does E coli have a bad reputation? Most ...

Diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) remains stagnant. The presumption that a patient either has a UTI or does not (binary choice) is inappropriately simplistic. Laboratory ...