Disrupting quorum sensing in Enterococcus faecalis can backfire, causing larger biofilms, higher antibiotic tolerance, and ...

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have challenged the widely held assumption in infectious disease research that blocking ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010;8(8):879-885. We recommend a thorough evaluation of patients with non-HACEK Gram-negative endocarditis to assess the necessity of surgical intervention. Decision to ...

How do the 2007 IE prevention guidelines differ from the prior (1997 [11]) iteration? There are three major differences in the current version. The "highest-risk" group for whom antibiotic prophylaxis ...

The incidence rate of infective endocarditis—a rare but often fatal inflammation of the heart valves—among patients with cocaine use disorder or opioid use disorder increased from 2011 to 2022, with ...

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Antibiotic prophylaxis is indicated in patients with certain cardiac conditions who are undergoing bacteremia-producing procedures. However, the American Heart Association (AHA) 2007 guidelines ...

Undersized donor hearts were indeed associated with more post-transplantation mortality -- but only among complex transplant recipients, a Nashville center found. (Annals of Thoracic Surgery) In Japan ...

There is no causal link between periodontitis and infective endocarditis (IE), indicating that past clinical practices may have overstated the role of periodontitis in preventing the condition, ...

In infectious disease research, disrupting bacterial communication is widely considered beneficial. A study by UNIGE and NTU Singapore shows this is not always true.