http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. What cancerous conditions lead to what kinds of bacterial infections? If doctors knew, they could predict which patients would likely benefit from pre-treatment with certain kinds of antibiotics. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in this month's issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the answer: E. coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae are especially prevalent in patients with lung and GI cancers, more so for Klebsiella if these patients have been treated previously with aminopenicillins. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bacteria-cancer-patients-hospitals-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:43:18 EST news278181790 A major European and global health issue is resistance to or inappropriate use of antibiotics. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) estimates that each year, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) results in 25 000 deaths and related costs of over EUR 1.5 billion in healthcare expenses and productivity losses. Over the last four years, there has been a significant increasing trend of combined resistance to multiple antibiotics in both Klebsiella pneumoniae and E. coli in more than one-third of the EU/EEA countries. In addition, in several Member States, between 25 % and up to more than 60 % of Klebsiella pneumoniae from bloodstream infections show combined resistance to multiple antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-threat-antibiotic-resistance.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:15:02 EST news277020890 (HealthDay)—Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) isolates from U.S. inpatients are becoming increasingly resistant to antimicrobial agents, according to a study published in the January issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-antimicrobial-resistance-pneumoniae-isolates.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:40:01 EST news275228930 For six months last year, a deadly outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacteria kept infection-control specialists at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Clinical Center in a state of high alert. A New York City patient carrying a multi-drug resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a microbe frequently associated with hospital-borne infections, introduced the dangerous bacteria into the 243-bed research hospital while participating in a clinical study in the summer of 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-genome-sequencing-quell-bacterial-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:27:29 EST news264864440 University at Buffalo researchers are expressing concern about a new, under-recognized, much more potent variant of a common bacterium that has surfaced in the U.S. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-klebsiella-pneumoniae-superbug.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:09:45 EST news248713775 A team of researchers from the University of Houston (UH) and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (SLEH) are working to develop improved screening methods to detect a potentially lethal, drug-resistant superbug that has made its way to Texas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-screening-method-superbug.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:25:14 EST news234779088