We describe here the characteristics of Alberta, Canada, patients with infections or colonizations with carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria during 2010 to 2013 that were linked to recent travel outside Canada. Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by broth microdilution, and isolates were characterized using PCR, sequencing, and multilocus sequencing typing. A broth mating stud...

OBJECTIVE To study the changing patterns of antimicrobial resistance in gram negative bacilli esp. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa species and Gram positive Staphylococcus aureus isolates from a 37 bedded ICU of a private hospital. METHODS Antibiotic susceptibilities were determined by using disk diffusion and Vitek-2 system. RESULTS A total of 13410 clinical...

Hospital-acquired infections, particularly in ICU, are becoming more frequent recent years, with the most serious of them being Gram-negative bacterial infections. Among them, Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa considered resistant bacteria encountered ICU other wards. Given fact that about 24 hours usually required to perform common antibiotic resistance...

In this article, a 16-year-old girl who developed peritonitis due to Moellerella wisconsensis while being treated by continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) as renal replacement therapy is presented. gram-negative, facultative anaerobic bacillus and member of the Enterobacteriacea family. Its natural habitat not well known. However, it has been isolated from patients with diarrhea, cho...

Helicobacter pylori is a gram negative microaerophilic spiral bacteria that was first identified by Warren and Marshall in 1983. It is found predominantly beneath the gastric mucus layer that lines the surface epithelium of the stomach and can colonize the gastric mucosa for years. Recent research suggests that Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection is a recognised cause of gastritis and pept...

It is has been assumed for over half a century that the earliest animals were obligate aerobes with relatively high oxygen requirements. However, the conserved biochemistry and widespread phylogenetic distribution of anaerobic energy metabolism in animals suggests a deep ancestral possession of the genes and enzymes necessary for a facultative anaerobic lifestyle. Additionally, non-bilaterian b...