Cronobacter spp. (Enterobacter sakazakii) is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen capable of causing disease and even fatalities in newborn infants within the first weeks of life if consumed as part of the diet. Premature and immunocompromised newborn infants are at particular risk. The microorganism has been isolated from a variety of foods including contaminated infant milk formula powder and ...

The abilities of 26 marine and 12 other Pseudomonas-like strains of bacteria to grow on single carbon sources, their antibiotic sensitivities and complement of some enzymes of intermediary metabolism were numerically analysed and gave five phenons. Two phenons contained strains with more than 55 mol % GC and were regarded as Pseudomonas spp., two were similar to the genus AZteromonas, and one w...

U-76,252 is the prodrug of U-76,253. MICs of U-76,253 were 0.015 to 0.06 microgram/ml for greater than or equal to 90% of the strains of Streptococcus spp., Haemophilus influenzae, and Proteus mirabilis; 0.25 to 1 microgram/ml for Branhamella catarrhalis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., and Citrobacter diversus; 1 to 8 micrograms/ml for Staphylococcus spp.; and 2 to greater than 16 microgram...

PER-1 type beta-lactamases were screened among ceftazidime-resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A total of 176 non-repetitive isolates (84 Acinetobacter spp. and 92 P. aeruginosa) were collected during a three month surveillance period. Isolates were obtained from seven intensive care units of seven university hospitals. All strains were screened for bla...

Methods In this study we used a bacteriophage testing kit containing 4 types of Georgian products: PYO, INTESTI (Eliava BioPreparations, Tbilisi) and PHAGYO, PHAGESTI (JSC “Biochimpharm”, Tbilisi) to test the strains of Pseudomonas spp. and Enterococcus spp. isolated and stored from patients treated in the Adults II ward of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş”, ...

The antimicrobial resistance of gram-negative pathogens has become problematic. In some cases related to Pseudomonas spp. and Acinetobacter spp., no antimicrobials on the market can be utilized at standard doses. We report a case of resistant Acinetobacter infection in a patient in the intensive care unit. In this scenario, we successfully treated the infection with doripenem at a higher dose o...

Mezlocillin is a new semisynthetic penicillin that inhibited 71% of the isolates of Serratia marcescens, 67% of Escherichia coli, 50% of Enterobacter spp., and 49% of Klebsiella spp. at a concentration of 12.5 mug/ml. It is also active against both indole-positive and -negative Proteus spp. and gram-positive cocci, except penicillin G-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. At a concentration of 100 m...