Rongjuan Wei

Jan 10, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Peng Gu |Ruofan Liu |Qin Yang |Rongjuan Wei

1 Introduction The increasing prevalence and severity of bacterial infection is becoming an urgent public health threat affecting vulnerable populations, such as older hospitalized patients,[1] particularly in intensive care units (ICU), and accounts for one-third of deaths in this population globally.[2, 3] Furthermore, with the aging of the population, the incidence and mortality of bacterial infection in hospitals increase exponentially in people ≥65 years of age.[4, 5] Despite...