Bacteremia, or blood poisoning, occurs when bacteria overcome the body's immune defenses. Bacteremia can worsen into sepsis, a condition that accounts for more than 1 in 3 hospital deaths per year.

Bacterial insertion sequences (IS) are small DNA segments (<2.5 kb) with a simple genetic organization. Most IS elements exhibit short terminal inverted repeat sequences (IR) and encode a transposase, ...

We saw that one quarter of them were resistant to all the available antimicrobial drugs on the market, these bacteria are said to have total resistance (pandrug-resistant). Infections caused by these ...

Genus Providencia is Gram-negative opportunistic pathogens of the family Morganellaceae, which could be isolated from a wide range of organisms and environments. Providencia vermicola was first ...