Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and resistance determinants are of great concern to human veterinary medicine worldwide. Extended-spectrum ?-lactamase (ESBL)-producing resistant broad-spectrum cephalosporins. ESBL-producing isolates, including those carrying blaCTX, blaPER, blaVEB, blaGES, have been reported from rivers in several countries.1 In a study performed 2018, using next-generation se...

The effects of continuous rate infusion of lidocaine or amiodarone on hemodynamic and arrhythmias induced by epinephrine in dogs anesthetized with halothane were evaluated. Thirty dogs were distributed into three groups: amiodarone group (AG), lidocaine group (LG), or control group (CG). Anesthesia was induced with etomidate and maintained with halothane. Thirty minutes later a bolus and contin...

The veb1 gene cassette encodes the extended spectrum β-lactamase, VEB-1 that is increasingly isolated from worldwide Gram-negative rods. Veb1 is commonly inserted into the variable region of different class 1 integrons in which it is always associated with a downstream-located aadB gene cassette encoding an aminoglycoside adenylyltransferase. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the majority of veb1-cont...

Among 120 Escherichia coli isolates from Thai patients, 37 and 9 isolates were extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) and suspected ESBL producers respectively while 5 E. coli isolates from 120 Thai healthy adults were suspected ESBL producers. Integrase (intl1) gene was detected in 99% of the clinical and 87% of the non-clinical isolates. Among 37 ESBL producers, percent recovery of bla(TEM),...

tazobactam. The addition of tazobactam was of no benefit in strains producing GES, VEB and PER b-lactamases, which all had CXA-101 MICs .64 mg/L. In the only isolate producing an ESBLM-D b-lactamase (OXA-32), the MIC was reduced from .64 to 8 mg/L. The OXA-32-producing isolate was also susceptible to piperacillin/tazobactam. Susceptibility to piperacillin/ tazobactam was additionally seen in on...

We present a new and efficient semi-supervised training method for parameter estimation and feature selection in conditional random fields (CRFs). In real-world applications such as activity recognition, unlabeled sensor traces are relatively easy to obtain whereas labeled examples are expensive and tedious to collect. Furthermore, the ability to automatically select a small subset of discrimin...

Background. This study described various molecular and epidemiological characters determining antibiotic resistance patterns in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. Methods. A total of 34 carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa clinical isolates were isolated from samples collected at a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from January to December 2011. Susceptibility testing, serotyping, molecula...