Sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (SXT) is the drug-of-choice in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia caused infections. There has been an increase in resistance to SXT of S. maltophilia over recent years. In this study 30 S. maltophilia clinical isolates resistant to SXT were investigated. Antibiotic susceptibilities for ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, doxycycline, tigecycline, ceftazidime, col...

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...

AIMS To determine the sensitivity to honey of Gram-positive cocci of clinical significance in wounds and demonstrate that inhibition is not exclusively due to osmotic effects. METHODS AND RESULTS Eighteen strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and seven strains of vancomycin-sensitive enterococci were isolated from infected wounds and 20 strains of vancomycin-resistant enteroc...

Nowadays the extensive use of antibiotics for the treatment of humans and warm blooded animals has influenced the frequency and spread of antibiotic resistant E. coli O157:H7 in different aqueous sources. Thus, the main aim of this study was to evaluate the antibiotic susceptibilities of E. coli O157:H7 isolated from different water sources and establish a correlation between the presence of vi...

OBJECTIVES To assess the rate of isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) and multidrug-resistant PA (MDR-PA) from patients with chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) otorrhea and the annual trend of antibiotic-resistance. METHODS Otorrhea samples were collected aseptically from 1,598 CSOM patients. The rate of bacterial isolation and the results of antibiotic susceptibility testing were ev...

Brucellosis is a zoonosis with a worldwide distribution and remains a significant public health problem mainly in the developing world. In this study we evaluated the in vitro activities and synergistic effects of antibiotic combinations against blood culture isolates of Brucella spp. In vitro susceptibilities of 76 blood culture isolates of Brucella melitensis and one blood culture isolate of ...

in this study, 72 enterococcus faecalis isolates originating from humans (n=39), dogs (n=26) and cats (n=7) were investigated for some virulence factors, some virulence genes, antibiotic resistance phenotypes, randomly amplified polymorphic dna-polymerase chain reaction (rapd-pcr) patterns and biofilm production. of the isolates, 31 (43.1%) were positive for gelatinase, 11 (15.3%) for aggregati...