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  2. Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae - Wikipedia

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    Patients with diabetes have also been shown to be at an elevated risk for acquiring CRE infections. [7] When compared to other hospitalized patients, those admitted from long-term acute care (LTAC) facilities have significantly higher incidence of colonization and infection rates. [8]

  3. List of antibiotic-resistant bacteria - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of bacteria on a "Mega-Plate" petri dish A list of antibiotic resistant bacteria is provided below. These bacteria have shown antibiotic resistance (or antimicrobial resistance). Gram positive Clostridioides difficile Clostridioides difficile is a nosocomial pathogen that causes diarrheal disease worldwide. Diarrhea caused by C. difficile can be life-threatening. Infections are ...

  4. Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Overuse of antimicrobial agents and problems with infection control practices have led to the development of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections. We used to use carbapenems as the main option in several countries for those severe infections; however, now there are several mechanisms of resistance, including carbapenemase ...

  5. Indigenous health in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Prior to European colonisation, it is likely that the health of Indigenous Australians was better than that of the inhabitants of poorer sections of Europe. [1] Colonisation impacted the health of Indigenous Australians via land dispossession, social marginalisation, political oppression, incarceration, acculturation and population decline.

  6. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus - Wikipedia

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    Vancomycin. Six different types of vancomycin resistance are shown by enterococcus: Van-A, Van-B, Van-C, Van-D, Van-E and Van-G. [4] The significance is that Van-A VRE is resistant to both vancomycin and teicoplanin, [5] Van-B VRE is resistant to vancomycin but susceptible to teicoplanin, [6] [7] and Van-C is only partly resistant to vancomycin.

  7. Diabetes in Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia

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    The prevalence of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and the corresponding diseases that are associated with these conditions, are often attributed to European influences at the time of colonisation. [10] Sugar and refined foods were used at this time as a means of detaching Aboriginal people from the land and assimilating them into white society.

  8. Glossary of diabetes - Wikipedia

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    An infection of the mouth. In people with diabetes, this infection may be caused by high levels of glucose (sugar) in mouth fluids, which helps the growth of fungus that causes the infection. Patches of whitish-colored skin in the mouth are signs of this disease. Tolazamide A pill taken to lower the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.

  9. Group B streptococcal infection - Wikipedia

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    GBS-EOD infections presented in infants whose mothers had been screened as GBS culture-negative are particularly worrying, and may be caused by incorrect sample collection, delay in processing the samples, incorrect laboratory techniques, recent antibiotic use, or GBS colonization after the screening was carried out.