On December 2022, an alert reporting an unusual increase in Group A Streptococcus (GAS)
non-invasive (mainly tonsillitis and scarlet fever) and invasive GAS disease (iGAS) was …

Despite some limitations, current molecular diagnostic methods have a great potential to
include bacterial targets useful in the identification of microorganisms and antimicrobial …

Objectives Our aim was to analyze the prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections
in lung transplant donors and to evaluate its influence on donor-derived bacterial infections. …

Background Second-stage positive cultures in 2-stage revision arthroplasty are a matter of
concern, as their influence in outcomes is not clearly defined. We sought to study …

Objective To compare a series of monomicrobial Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) knee
and hip periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) cases with cases of polymicrobial PJI which …

Background The positive-intraoperative-cultures-type prosthetic joint infection (PIOC-PJI) is
considered when surgical cultures yield microorganisms in presumed aseptic arthroplasty …

Fusobacterium nucleatum is an obligately anaerobic gram-negative rod, a component of the
microbiome of the oropharynx and the gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts, causing an …

Purpose To describe the demographic, clinical, and microbiological profile of native vertebral
osteomyelitis (NVO) in aged patients as compared to that of younger patients, to identify …

Donor‐derived bacterial infection is a recognized complication of solid organ transplantation.
Patients admitted to the intensive care unit are increasingly exposed to infection with …

The study aims to determine whether 8 weeks of antibiotics is non-inferior to 12 weeks in
patients with acute deep spinal implant infection (SII). In the retrospective study of all SII cases (…