Objective: To analyse the risk factors of drug-resistant bacterial pneumonia in elderly inpatients in Shandong Province. Methods: From January 2014 to December 2016, 10 cities and counties were randomly selected in Shandong Province, three medical institutions were also selected in each city or county, 200 cases of elderly patients with bacterial pneumonia were recruited as research objects in ...

Silicon plays an important role in providing tolerance to various abiotic stresses and augmenting plant resistance against diseases. However, there is a paucity of reports about the effect of silicon on bacterial and viral pathogens of plants. In general, the effect of silicon on plant resistance against bacterial diseases is considered to be due to either physical defense or increased biochemi...

Cutting-edge machine learning tools have shown significant promise for infectious disease control using the bacterial genome. In this chapter, an overview of key problems of clinical microbiology surrounding infectious disease management, antibiotic resistance, and clinical susceptibility test to antimicrobial drugs, will be provided, followed by an introduction of genomic data used in genotypi...