Increasing frequency of infections caused by antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli strains producing extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) needs to be addressed by continuous surveillance and accurate detection of specific ESBLs genes for more effective treatment. A total of 71 β-lactam drug resistant isolates (26 phenotypically ESBL-producing and 45 non-ESBLproducing) were observed to carry app...

BACKGROUND Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most common causes of nosocomial infections. Resistance of P. aeruginosa to β-lactam antibiotics may be the result of acquired resistance through mutation and over production of various antibiotic inactivating enzymes. This research aimed to determine the prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) and metallo β-lactamase (MBL) production ...

Screening by a double-disk synergy test identified a Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolate that produced a clavulanic acid-inhibited expanded-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL). Cloning and sequencing identified a novel ESBL, BEL-1, weakly related to other Ambler class A ESBLs. beta-Lactamase BEL-1 hydrolyzed significantly most expanded-spectrum cephalosporins and aztreonam, and its activity was inhibited...

Klebsiella pneumoniae causing primary liver abscess (PLA) is emerging. This study identified the beta-lactamases genes of K. pneumoniae isolates in Taiwan. The susceptibilities of beta-lactam antibiotics of 30 K. pneumoniae strains associated with primary liver abscess and 30 noninvasive strains were analyzed. The beta-lactamase genes of randomly selected 24 strains from community-acquired infe...

Background: Staphylococcus aureus has the ability to develop many efficient mechanisms neutralize them and it become difficult control virulent strains of S. from causing staphylococcal diseases in animals humans. Mostly Staphylococcal have resistant methicillin, β-lactamase ESBL activity sometime vancomycin also. The present study investigated phenotypic genotypic characteristics all 62 isolat...

Hypermutable (mutation frequency [f], > or = 4 x 10(-8)) Escherichia coli strains were more frequently found (43%) in a collection of 89 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing isolates from different patients (77 pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clones, 12 ESBL types) than in non-ESBL E. coli (26%) strains (P = 0.03). Among urinary tract isolates, the frequency of hypermutation was 4...

The prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae varies worldwide, however, the incidence of ESBL-producing environmental Salmonella isolates is increasing. Salmonella is still one of the most important pathogens that occur in the poultry supply chain. Therefore, this study analyzed the susceptibility of Salmonella isolates collected from a poultry supply chai...

In a collection of 43 indole-positive Klebsiella clinical isolates, which were initially identified as Klebsiella oxytoca, there were 18 isolates which exhibited a pattern characteristic of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) resistance. This study aimed to confirm their identity by biochemical tests and by PCR and to determine the genetic basis for their resistance to the beta-lactams and ...

Food contamination with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria is recognized as one of the public health concerns worldwide. Although fish and fishery products at retail in Japan have relied on imported materials, no apparent evidences exist prevalence property genetic transfer ESBL-producing those food specimens. This study aimed to investigate plasmid-mediated antibiotic-r...

Background & objectives: Members of the family enterobacteriaceae comprise the most common gram-negative isolates in microbiology laboratories. Amongst these members, multiple antibiotic-resistant isolates including those producing extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) and AmpC β-lactamases (AmpC) have increased steadily. Further, metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) producing strains are also recently de...