On April 1, 2011, Poland adopted new EUCAST recommendations for microbial susceptibility testing, approved by the National Consultant for Microbiology. They contain important guidelines for microbiologists and many valuable data for physicians concerning antimicrobial drugs. The introduction of these recommendations to hospitals by microbiological laboratories involves changes in the interpreta...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer death in the western world. An effective screening program leading to early detection of disease would severely reduce the mortality of CRC. Alterations in the gut microbiota have been linked to CRC, but the potential of microbial markers for use in CRC screening has been largely unstudied. We used a nested case-control study of ...

Background: Antibiotic resistance is one of the major problems encountered in therapy canine pyometra. The ability bacteria to form biofilm implicated as factors responsible for this. Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus are predominant associated with pyometra canines known their formation. Keeping this view, a preliminary study was conducted detect forming strains E. S. aureus, if any, ...

With the emergence of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, community-specific antimicrobial susceptibility patterns have become valuable determinants of empiric therapy for S. pneumoniae infections. Traditionally, these patterns are tracked by active surveillance for invasive disease, collection of isolates, and centralized susceptibility testing. We investigated whether a simpler and less ...

Klebsiella species are a common cause of community- and nosocomial-acquired pneumonia. Antibiotic resistance to the class of carbapenem in patients with pneumonia caused by Klebsiella species is unusual. New studies report carbapenem resistance in patients with pneumonia caused by Klebsiella species.This article examines, retrospectively, antibiotic resistance in patients with community- and no...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the antibiotic resistance of infectious and non-infectious E. coli species in order to increase the success of empirical antibiotic treatment in urinary system infections. METHODS The antibiotic susceptibility of 464 E. coli strains that were isolated from urine samples of patients who visited Derince Training and Research Hospital Emergency D...

bacteremia is an important infectious disease which may lead to death. common bacteria and pattern of antibiotic resistance in different communities are different and understanding these differences is important. in the present study, relative frequency and pattern of drug resistance have been examined in bacteria isolated from blood cultures in razi hospital laboratory. the method of the study...

Effective treatment of clinical infections is critically dependent on the ability to rapidly screen patient samples to identify antibiograms of infecting pathogens. Existing methods for antibiotic susceptibility testing suffer from several disadvantages, including long turnaround times, excess sample and reagent consumption, poor detection sensitivity, and limited combinatorial capabilities. Un...

OBJECTIVES The present study was undertaken to assess the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a tertiary care hospital in Gujarat, India. Due to significant changes in microbial genetic ecology, as a result of indiscriminate use of anti-microbials, the spread of anti-microbial resistance is now a global problem. MATERIALS AND METHODS Out of 276 culture positive sam...