gentamicin

Letter to the editor: intratympanic gentamicin for Ménière’s disease: is there a selective vestibulotoxic effect?

In a recent issue of the European Archives of Otorhinolaryngology journal, Molnár et al. presented an interesting work in which the authors investigated the efectiveness and safety of intratympanic (IT) gentamicin in patients afected by Meniere’s disease (MD) based on the vertigo diaries and pure tone audiogram results. The authors showed
that patients afected by MD treated with low dose IT gentamicin (8 mg) had an improvement of vertigo attacks without developing a higher risk of hearing loss. The article is

Emergence of NDM-5-producing Escherichia coli sequence type 167 clone in Italy

The emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) is a critical concern worldwide. In Italy, CPE isolates are very frequent, with the KPC enzyme types strongly predominant whereas the New Delhi metallo-?-lactamase (NDM) enzymes are extremely rare. Here we report the first detection of NDM-5-producing Escherichia coli sequence type 167 (ST167) isolates from two patients with urinary tract infection (Ec001 and Ec002 from urines), including one with colonisation (Ec003 from faeces) admitted to the same hospital 2 months apart in 2017.

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