Active clinical trials for "Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections"

The overall aim is to validate the current use of FDG PET/CT for the diagnosis of infection and inflammation and examine the usefulness of PET/CT applying also other tracers. The results should allow us to confirm our primary hypothesis: "FDG-PET/CT is better than established methods to confirm or exclude the diagnosis of infection/inflammation".

Daptomycin kinetics in CRRT Trial with medicinal product

The purpose of this study is to determine if Linezolid is safe for adult Filipino patients diagnosed with gram positive infections.

Staphylococcus aureus is the most common bacteria responsible for skin, bone, and muscle infections. Recent studies from the United States have suggested that a type of this bacterium called methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) has become dramatically more common, especially the community strain. However, Canadian data is still largely lacking. This study aims to determine the prevalence of community acquired (CA) MRSA among patients presenting with skin and soft tissue infections to the Urgent Care Center and Emergency Departments in London, Ontario. This will be determined by taking swabs at enrollment from patient's noses, throats, and sites of infection. Patients will be asked to complete a health questionnaire with the goal of identifying risk factors associated with CA-MRSA. Through follow-up swabs of participants' noses and throats at one and three months, the effects of treatment on patient's carrying MRSA will be determined. Results may be used to form guidelines for empirical S aureus treatment in the region, reducing possible morbidity and mortality from delayed or suboptimal treatment of CA-MRSA infections. Improved understanding of risk factors associated with MRSA infection in a Canadian setting, may also change the practice of physicians considering empiric antibiotic therapy for skin and soft tissue infections.

In this observational study, the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (NRN) is conducting surveillance of all infants born at NRN centers to identify all newborns who are diagnosed with early-onset sepsis (EOS) and/or meningitis. The study will: establish current hospital-based rates of EOS among term and preterm infants in the era of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis; monitor the organisms associated with EOS and meningitis; compare asymptomatic and symptomatic infants by gestational age and pathogen; and monitor sepsis-associated mortality rates by pathogen group.

To determine the value of increasing use of piperacillin/tazobactam as empiric therapy and restricting extended-spectrum cephalosporins in reducing the cases of ESBL producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in hematology and oncology units

To determine the impact of the restriction of the third and forth generation cephalosporins on the reduction of intestinal colonization or infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU)

In this retrospective registry the investigators wish to verify whether the current dosing regime of vancomycin is leading to the appropriate pharmacokinetic targets in pediatric patients. Therefore data will be collected from all pediatric patients hospitalized in University Hospitals Leuven between January 2012 and April 2014 who were treated with vancomycine.

This study is a retrospective, observational study to evaluate oritavancin use in participants under real world conditions.

There is a potential of bacterial overgrowth under the foreskin in the sub-preputial space, therefore we would like to investigate possible techniques to reduce this potential.