GIL MARQUÉS , María Luisa

The emergence of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacilli infections is a well-recognized global health challenge in urgent need of effective solutions. These pathogens cause infections that are very difficult to treat due to the high rate of resistance strains to a lot or even all antimicrobials used in the clinical practice. Furthermore,...

Colistin is among the few antibiotics effective against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates. However, in the last few years, colistin-resistant A. baumannii and K. pneumoniae strains have emerged. Therefore, combination therapies, between colistin and other old drugs, restoring the activity of...

Background: S. pneumoniae is the leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia in the solid organ transplant recipient (SOTR); nevertheless, the prevalence of colonization and of the colonizing/infecting serotypes has not been studied in this population. In this context, the aim of the present study was to describe the rate, characteristics,...