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| Title |
The role of beta-lactamase-producing-bacteria in mixed infections
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2334-9-202 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Itzhak Brook |
| Abstract |
Beta-lactamase-producing bacteria (BLPB) can play an important role in polymicrobial infections. They can have a direct pathogenic impact in causing the infection as well as an indirect effect through their ability to produce the enzyme beta-lactamase. BLPB may not only survive penicillin therapy but can also, as was demonstrated in in vitro and in vivo studies, protect other penicillin-susceptible bacteria from penicillin by releasing the free enzyme into their environment. This phenomenon occurs in upper respiratory tract, skin, soft tissue, surgical and other infections. The clinical, in vitro, and in vivo evidence supporting the role of these organisms in the increased failure rate of penicillin in eradication of these infections and the implication of that increased rate on the management of infections is discussed. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 132 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 127 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 22 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 14% |
| Researcher | 16 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 14% |
| Unknown | 23 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 26% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 17% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 18 | 14% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 14 | 11% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Unknown | 31 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2019.
All research outputs
#6,411,787
of 22,780,967 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#2,004
of 7,670 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,848
of 164,495 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#8
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,780,967 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,670 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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