Volume 11, Issue 2 (2015) | American Journal of Infectious Diseases

Campylobacter Fetus Infection of the Aorta: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Rabindra Ghimire — 2015-06-26

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 26 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2015.26.32

Campylobacter is a gram negative bacterium that exhibits tissue tropism. We report a case of Campylobacter fetus bacteremia associated with infra-renal abdominal aortitis. The patient was a poor surgi...

Hemodynamic Catheters: The Reprocessing, Cleanliness and in vitro Biofilm Formation by Enterococcus faecium in a Continuous Flow Model

Cleber Galdino da Silva — 2015-07-24

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 24 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2015.33.40

Reprocessing single-use devices to cut costs is a common practice in hospitals around the world. In Brazil, there are few studies of reprocessing hemodynamic catheters and thus, this study aimed to ev...

Screening of Multi-Drug and Metal Resistant Aeromonas Species from Diverse Sources

Ramasamy Amsaveni — 2015-08-07

American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Published online: 7 August 2015; doi:10.3844/ajidsp.2015.41.47

The abuse of antibiotics in the modern era, lead the microorganisms to develop resistance. Antibiotic resistance becomes the part of natural selection in bacteria which allows them to survive in diffe...