{"title":"Association between albumin-based nutritional inflammation indices and all-cause mortality in patients with severe pneumonia.","authors":"Xianming Qiu, Qingwen Sun, Mingjie Liu, Yuke Zhang, Zhiming Jiang, Quanzhen Wang","doi":"10.1186/s12879-026-12974-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-026-12974-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8981,"journal":{"name":"BMC Infectious Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147502978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-23DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13116-w
Yi Liang, Feng Lin, Jia Li, Na Xu, Wen Zhu, Yang Zhang, Wenfang Zhuang
{"title":"Robinsoniella peoriensis bacteremia in a patient with colorectal cancer: a case report and literature review.","authors":"Yi Liang, Feng Lin, Jia Li, Na Xu, Wen Zhu, Yang Zhang, Wenfang Zhuang","doi":"10.1186/s12879-026-13116-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-026-13116-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8981,"journal":{"name":"BMC Infectious Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147497414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epidemiological and clinical profile of viral hepatitis B and C among adult patients attending Hepatitis clinic at Rwanda Military Referral and Teaching Hospital: a retrospective cross-sectional study.","authors":"Derrick Shema, Nyauma Mokaya Nelson, Didier Nsanzimfura, Fabrice Mfashingabo, Eric Seruyange","doi":"10.1186/s12879-026-13119-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-026-13119-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8981,"journal":{"name":"BMC Infectious Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147503009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-23DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13015-0
Boris Sokolovski, Nitai Bar, Anat Stern, Eyal Bercovich, Bar Rinott, Natalia Puchkov, Daniela Militianu
{"title":"Incidence of Voriconazole-induced periostitis in a tertiary medical center: a single-center retrospective analysis.","authors":"Boris Sokolovski, Nitai Bar, Anat Stern, Eyal Bercovich, Bar Rinott, Natalia Puchkov, Daniela Militianu","doi":"10.1186/s12879-026-13015-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-026-13015-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8981,"journal":{"name":"BMC Infectious Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147502989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-23DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13129-5
Fan Liang, Hui Zhang, Shuang Ba, Yueyun Shang
{"title":"Integration of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index and Lactate for diagnostic and early risk stratification in pediatric sepsis.","authors":"Fan Liang, Hui Zhang, Shuang Ba, Yueyun Shang","doi":"10.1186/s12879-026-13129-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-026-13129-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8981,"journal":{"name":"BMC Infectious Diseases","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147502976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-21DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-12788-8
Ashley L Golbus, Elaine Park, Courtney E Harris, Syed Quadri, Rupak Mukherjee, Arman Killic, Ryan J Tedford, Blaithin A McMahon
Background: Empiric antimicrobial selection in orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) is critically important as post-operative infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. While variability of antimicrobial selection exists between centers, both combinations of vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam (VPT) and vancomycin and cefepime (VC) are frequently used. VPT drug combination has been associated with increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) in multiple reports. Our study aimed to evaluate the infectious impact of changing the empiric antimicrobial selection from VPT to VC.
Methods: This was a single-center study in patients who underwent OHT at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) from 2015 through 2021 (n=120). As part of a quality improvement measure, the empiric intraoperative antimicrobial therapy was transitioned from VPT (n=48) to VC (n=72) on 6/20/2019, providing a prospective setting to investigate infectious outcomes.
Results: A total of 10.4% of patients who received VPT had a positive culture within 30 days of OHT, compared to 9.7% of patients who received VC (p=0.781). All positive cultures were reviewed and deemed to be clinically significant infections. No significant difference in the site of culture positivity was identified between groups (p=0.487). Among patients who developed postoperative infection, there was a trend toward a longer time to infection in patients receiving VPT (median 28 days) than VC (median 14 days), p=0.08.
Conclusions: Culture-positive infections within 30 days post-OHT were similar between patients receiving empiric intraoperative VPT and those receiving VC.
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