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Filter by:A surgical site infection (SSI) is an infection that occurs after surgery in the part of the body
Antimicrobial resistance is a major threat worldwide and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriales (ESBL-E) are a leading cause because of their wide dissemination. Gut microbiota seems to be correlated with multi-drug resistant organism carriage. This study thus aims to analyse the correlation between gut microbiota, ESBL-E fecal carriage and subsequent infection.
Ascites is the most common complication of cirrhosis, and its development is associated with substantially increased mortality. Ascites infection including spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP), bacterascites and fungal infections. SBP is one of the most feared complications of ascites. The EASL guidelines recommend that diagnostic criteria of SBP is defined on the ascitic fluid polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) count ≥250 cell/μl, with or without ascites fluid positive culture. However, in clinical practice. Up to 30% of hospitalized patients are considered as suspicious SBP, and treated as SBP without a laboratory-confirmed cause of infection. and is present in 10-30% of all hospitalized patients with ascites. Besides, fungal infection in ascites was aslo related to high mortality in cirrhosis patients. Thus, to diagnose ascites infection promptly is the key step to prevent the complication. Since, the sensitivity of bacterial culture is limited even if ascites is directly injected into blood culture bottles at the besides. New method to identified the pathogen is needed. Here, we aim to use metagenomic next-generation sequencing(mNGS) to provide the first-ever demonstration of precision medicine for the diagnosis of ascites infection in hospitalized patients, with immediate impact on clinical care and patients outcomes. The method of mNGS is undertaken by BGI Genomics Company which is a licensed clinical diagnostic laboratory in China. In this multicenter and prospective clinical study, we are planning to detect ascites sample by mNGS and compare the performance of mNGS and routine microbiological testing. Ultimately, we aim to improve the diagnosis of ascites infection and improve patients' outcomes.
According to the official recommendations, infected prosthesis can be surgically treated by one or two-stage replacement. In Strasbourg, the investigators only perform one-stage surgery, which means that the new materiel is put directly into an infected site. To prevent re-infection, probabilist antibiotherapy has to be started the earlier as possible and to have the larger specter as possible. Official recommendations don't specify the best choice of antibiotherapy and let prescriptors make choice, according to the local epidemiology and patient's history. In Strasbourg, the investigators systematically start an antibiotic against cocci gram positive: daptomycin. Sometimes, the investigators add tazocillin, a broad-spectrum β-lactam against bacillus gram negative. To determine if the investigators use the second one, they focalized on the presence of fistula or not. Indeed, enterobacteriae from gastro-intestinal tractus are also found on the skin and can move to the peri-prosthetic site if a fistula is created. The major disadvantage of this board-spectrum antibiotic is the selection and creation of resistant bacteriae, which can be responsible of failure, re-infection, or just spreading on the environnement. The primary purpose is to evaluate retrospectively the prescription of tazocillin, judging it's necessity thanks to antibiograms performed on samples taken during surgery. The aim is to evaluate if the criteria " fistula or not " is a good one to guide the prescription of board-spectrum β-lactam. Secondary purposes are to find the etiology of failures ( bacteriological failure or re-infection with a new pathogen), evaluate the apparition of multi-drug resistant bacteriae and infections they are responsible for, looking for others criterias which could help the investigators to choose the probablist antibiotherapy
Children enrolled in the study will receive either the prebiotic inulin or a placebo for 21 days during the study period. They will start taking the product seven days before transplant starts until 14 days after transplant. Stool will be collected twice weekly until thirty days after transplant or discharge, whichever occurs first. Stool samples will be sampled for metagenomic sequencing to identify the diversity of bacteria within the stool. They will also be analyzed for amount of short-chain fatty acid content (a breakdown product of inulin) as well as for presence of genes that confer antibiotic resistance. From 30 days after transplant until 100 days after transplant, two stool samples will be collected at regularly scheduled follow up appointments (near day 60 and day 100). No product (inulin or placebo) will be given during this time frame. The study period ends 100 days after transplant.
This study was to assess the safety and efficacy of Seraprevir in combination with sofosbuvir in patients with Hepatitis C (HCV) genotype2,3,6. Efficacy was assessed by the rate of sustained viral response (SVR) 12 weeks after the discontinuation of therapy (SVR12).
The aim of our study will be to assess in an open-label, multicenter, randomized controlled trial whether a tailored therapy guided by a non-invasive antibiotic susceptibility test on stool samples achieves higher Helicobacter eradication rates than an empiric antibiotic regimen. For this purpose, consecutive patients with dyspeptic symptoms, diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection and naïve to eradicating treatments will be allocated to either of the two intervention arms.
Correlation of Microbiome to Chronic Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) via Relative Abundance Found in Microbiome Sequencing
This study seeks to correlate microbiome sequencing data with information provided by patients and their medical records.
In summary, in this project the investigators propose to study the proviral DNA genotyping to implement a lower cost and wider than the commercial systems currently in use, in order to analyze all HIV genes that are therapeutic targets of antiretroviral drugs. Using HIV proviral DNA we can obtain information for: HIV-1 Viral Tropism, Mutations associated to Integrase Inhibitors, Mutations associated to Transcriptase reverse Inhibitors, Mutations associated to Protease Inhibitors, and Mutations associated to GP41 Inhibitors. Along with this the investigators propose to validate the proviral DNA as starting material for genotyping which is independent of the patient's viral load and achieve a greater number of patients living with HIV have access to this important test that is essential in monitoring the HIV infection. 3.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONs Is proviral DNA a genetic compartment suitable for carrying out a genotypic resistance test in patients with low or undetectable viral load? Does proviral DNA have the same clinical validity that RNA? 3.3.- HYPOTHESIS A resistance genotyping test carried out by Proviral DNA detects the same mutations associated to resistance that viral RNA. 3.4.- OBJECTIVES: General/Specific General objective Develop a methodology to assess the proviral HIV-1 DNA or RNA as the genetic material for genotyping assays in genes that are targets of pharmacological interest as TR reverse transcriptase and protease (PRO), Integrase or GP41 Inhibitors and HIV tropism. Specific Objectives 1. Carry out genotyping by proviral DNA and compare it with the same genes genotyping performed with viral RNA. 2. Once the correlation between proviral DNA and RNA has shown, standardize a method to use the technique for clinical use in monitoring HIV patients according to each patient's needs. RNA for patients with viral load above 1,000 copies/mL. Proviral DNA for patients with low or undetectable viral load.