Epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia among hospitalised children in Indonesia: a multicentre, prospective study by Rina Triasih, Yan Mardian, Dewi Lokida, Helmia Farida, Herman Kosasih, Adhella Menur Naysilla, Arif Budiman, Chakrawati Hayuningsih, Moh Syarofil Anam, Dwi Wastoro, Mujahidah Mujahidah, Setya Dipayana, Amalia Setyati, Abu Tholib Aman, Nurhayati Lukman, Muhammad Karyana, Ahnika Kline, Aaron Neal, Chuen-Yen Lau, Clifford Lane

“…Based on our algorithm, 48 (25.5%) had a bacterial infection, 31 (16.5%) had a viral infection, 76 (40.4%) had mixed bacterial and viral infections, and 33 (17.6%) were unable to be classified. …”
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Effect of Dietary Vitamin C Ascorbic Acid on the Growth Performance and Immune Response of Betok Anabas testudineus Bloch by . Sunarto, . Suriansyah, . Sabariah

“… Vitamin C has a function for increasing normal growth, preventing bone annomaly for seed health or reducing stress, accelerating wound recovery and improving immune system against bacterial infection. Enhancement of immune response using immunostimulant had been proven in aquaculture.  …”
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Physical and Sensory Long-Term Disabilities from <i>Bothrops</i> Snakebite Envenomings in Manaus, Western Brazilian Amazon by Eduardo M. G. Fernández, Débora N. Oliveira, Alexandre V. Silva-Neto, Rafaela N. Dávila, Ligia Lengler, Marco A. Sartim, Altair S. Farias, Luiz C. L. Ferreira, Érica da Silva Carvalho, Fan H. Wen, Felipe Murta, Fernando Almeida-Val, Manuela B. Pucca, Jacqueline A. G. Sachett, Wuelton M. Monteiro

“…Local complications are mostly represented by necrosis, secondary bacterial infection and compartment syndrome. There are reports of long-term disabilities, but their burden is poorly investigated. …”
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Host-microbe computational proteomic landscape in oral cancer revealed key functional and metabolic pathways between Fusobacterium nucleatum and cancer progression by Camila Paz Muñoz-Grez, Mabel Angélica Vidal, Tamara Beatriz Rojas, Luciano Esteban Ferrada, Felipe Andrés Zuñiga, Agustin Andrés Vera, Sergio Andrés Sanhueza, Romina Andrea Quiroga, Camilo Daniel Cabrera, Barbara Evelyn Antilef, Ricardo Andrés Cartes, Milovan Paolo Acevedo, Marco Andrés Fraga, Pedro Felipe Alarcón-Zapata, Mauricio Alejandro Hernández, Alexis Marcelo Salas-Burgos, Francisco Tapia-Belmonte, Milly Loreto Yáñez, Erick Marcelo Riquelme, Wilfredo Alejandro González, Cesar Andrés Rivera, Angel Alejandro Oñate, Liliana Ivonne Lamperti, Estefanía Nova-Lamperti

“…In fact, we observed that F. nucleatum modulates the cystine/glutamate antiporter in an OSCC cell line by increasing SLC7A11 expression, promoting L-glutamate efflux and favoring bacterial infection. Finally, our results showed that F. nucleatum and its metabolic derivates promote tumor spheroids growth, spheroids-derived cell detachment, epithelial-mesenchymal transition and Galectin-9 upregulation. …”
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Peptide platform for 3D-printed Ti implants with synergistic antibacterial and osteogenic functions to enhance osseointegration by Chenying Cui, Yifan Zhao, Jingyu Yan, Ziyang Bai, Guning Wang, Yingyu Liu, Yurong Xu, Lihong Zhou, Kaifang Zhang, Yanling Mi, Binbin Zhang, Xiuping Wu, Bing Li

“…There is an increasing demand for implants that can resist bacterial infection while promoting osseointegration. In this study, we developed a peptide platform to engineer a multifunctional 3D-printed Ti implant (3DTi) modified with a fusion peptide composed of minTBP-1 (targeting peptide), KR-12 (antibacterial peptide), and GFOGER (adhesion peptide), termed 3DTi-NFP. …”
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacterial Uropathogens Isolated from Pediatric Patients at Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Yamirot Merga Duffa, Kumera Terfa Kitila, Dereje Mamuye Gebretsadik, Adane Bitew

“…Urinary tract infection (UTI) is considered as the most common bacterial infection seen among the pediatric patients. Objective. …”
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PROcalcitonin and NEWS2 evaluation for Timely identification of sepsis and Optimal use of antibiotics in the emergency department (PRONTO): protocol for a multicentre, open-label,... by David Taylor-Robinson, Steve Goodacre, Neil French, Richard Body, Kerenza Hood, Emma Thomas-Jones, Jane Daniels, Sarah Walker, Ingeborg Welters, Mike Bradburn, Paul Schmidt, Enitan Carrol, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Sarah Milosevic, Andrew Tabner, Philip Pallmann, Stephen Aston, Gavin Barlow, Emma Richards, Emmanuel Nsutebu, Philip Howard, Matthew Inada-Kim, Stacy Todd, Fiona McGill, Martin Llewelyn, Louis Wihelmus Niessen, Joanne Euden, Julie Carman, Stephanie Gilbert, Sam Clarkstone, Jacqui Hughes, Lena Meister, Angela Brain, Matthew Scarborough, Sian O'Shea, Claire James

“…The biomarker procalcitonin (PCT) has been shown to be useful in specific circumstances to support appropriate antibiotics prescribing by identifying bacterial infection. PCT is not routinely used in the care of undifferentiated patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs), and the evidence base of its optimal usage is poor. …”
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Universal antibacterial and anti-inflammatory treatment using chitosan-prussian blue nanozyme by Jian Wang, Jiayi Wang, Huayuan Zhou, Rui Ma, Zhou Fang, Jiawei Zhu, Zhejie Chen, Xinfeng Dai, Dali Wei, Jiabei Li, Yiting Jiang, Qian Xia, Xueliang Liu, Yu Yang

“…Bacterial infections are a growing global public health problem, exacerbated by the widespread and often inappropriate use of antibiotics, leading to the emergence of non-antibiotic pathogens. …”
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Myocarditis and Rhabdomyolysis in a Healthy Young Man Caused by Salmonella Gastroenteritis by Warkaa Al Shamkhani, Yasmeen Ajaz, Nagham Saeed Jafar, Sunil Roy Narayanan

“…While viral infections are commonly associated with myocarditis, bacterial infections are infrequently seen with these conditions. …”
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Trueperella pyogenes and Brucella abortus Coinfection in a Dog and a Cat on a Dairy Farm in Egypt with Recurrent Cases of Mastitis and Abortion by Gamal Wareth, Mohamed El-Diasty, Falk Melzer, Jayaseelan Murugaiyan, Amir Abdulmawjood, Lisa D. Sprague, Heinrich Neubauer

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Bacteriophages: A Challenge for Antimicrobial Therapy by Nallelyt Segundo-Arizmendi, Dafne Arellano-Maciel, Abraham Rivera-Ramírez, Adán Manuel Piña-González, Gamaliel López-Leal, Efren Hernández-Baltazar

“…Phage therapy, which involves the use of bacteriophages (phages) to combat bacterial infections, is emerging as a promising approach to address the escalating threat posed by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. …”
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Who arrived first? Priority effects on Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa dual biofilms by Betsy V. Arévalo-Jaimes, Joana Admella, Eduard Torrents

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Serological, phenotypic and molecular characterization of brucellosis in small ruminants in northern Algeria by Ibrahim Nabi, Rachid Achek, Rachid Achek, Abdelkadir Karim, Falk Melzer, Hanka Brangsch, Mandy C. Elschner, Heinrich Neubauer, Hosny El-Adawy, Hosny El-Adawy

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Editorial for Special Issue “Antibiotic Combination Therapy: A Strategy to Overcome Bacterial Resistance” by Helal F. Hetta, Yasmin N. Ramadan, Israa M. S. Al-Kadmy

“…Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections have emerged as a critical global health threat, challenging the efficacy of existing antibiotics and undermining advances in modern medicine [...]…”
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Approved antibacterial drugs in the last 10 years: from the bench to the clinic by Miguel García-Castro, Francisco Sarabia, Amelia Díaz-Morilla, Juan Manuel López-Romero

“…Bacterial infections constitute one of the major cases of primary medical incidences worldwide. …”
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Do Infections Cause Oligospermia and Could Empiric Antibiotics Antiprotozoal and Antifungal Treat Oligospermia? by Mohammed Nabil Dajanı

“…Our aim is to study the effect of fungal, trichomonal and bacterial infections as causes of oligospermia and to find possible treatment for it. …”
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Linezolid and serotonin syndrome by Haytham A. Wali

“…Linezolid, a synthetic oxazolidinone antibiotic, is used to treat gram-positive bacterial infections, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . …”
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Molecular Tools for Diagnosis of Pediatric Infectious Diseases by Nivedhana Subburaju

“…Molecular techniques constitute valuable tools to improve the diagnosis of bacterial infections in children when cultures remain negative, etiologies of which would otherwise go nondocumented. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Epidemiological Trends in Pediatric Cervical Abscess-Forming Infections by Shuhei Takahashi, Ai Kishino, Kentaro Miyai, Shigeru Takishima, Tae Omori, Hidehiro Furuno, Ryosei Iemura, Makoto Ono, Keisuke Ogasawara, Akito Sutani, Masayuki Nagasawa

“…Abscess-forming cervical bacterial infections are rare and serious infections. <b>Methods:</b> We retrospectively examined the trends in abscess-forming cervical bacterial infections in children who required inpatient treatment in three periods before (January 2016 to June 2020), during (July 2020 to December 2022) and after the COVID-19 pandemic (January 2023 to June 2024). …”
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A Rare Cause of Childhood Cerebellitis-Influenza Infection: A Case Report and Systematic Review of Literature by Şule Gökçe, Zafer Kurugol, Aslı Aslan

“…Acute cerebellitis is a benign neurologic condition generally caused by viral or bacterial infections. Influenza associated cerebellitis is extremely rare; a 6-year-old boy with acute cerebellitis, who presented with fever, vomiting, weakness, febrile seizure, and acute cerebellar features, is discussed in this article.…”
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