It has been said that when treating acute osteomyelitis, in this the era of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the antibiotic given to the patient when first seen is usually chosen by "inspired" guesswork (Mercer, 1964). If an antibiotic were available to which all commonly encountered pathogens were sensitive then this guesswork would be eliminated. It would be unnecessary to change an antibiotic ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate collateral sensitivity and cross-resistance antibiotic-induced resistant Salmonella Typhimurium various antibiotics. S. ATCC 19585 (STWT) exposed ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, kanamycin, tetracycline induce antibiotic resistance, respectively, assigned as STCIP, STGEN, STKAN, STTET. susceptibilities the mutants cefotaxime, chloramphenicol, polymyxin B, s...

Uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) are common in primary care. Whilst primary care physicians are called to be antimicrobial stewards, there is limited primary care antibiotic resistance surveillance and physician antibiotic prescription data available in southern Chinese primary care. The study aimed to investigate the antibiotic resistance rate and antibiotic prescription patterns i...

Twenty strains of avian mycoplasma, representing 12 serotypes, were tested in vitro for their susceptibility to the action of lincomycin and spectinomycin alone and in combination. They varied in their sensitivity pattern. The ranges of minimal inhibitory concentration were 1 to 20 mug/ml for lincomycin or spectinomycin alone and 0.5/1 to 3/6 mug/ml for the lincomycin and spectinomycin combinat...

INTRODUCTION There is a shifting trend in susceptibility and resistance of the bacteria towards available antibiotics in the last decade. Therefore, periodic studies to monitor the emerging trends in antibiotic susceptibility and resistance are crucial in guiding antibiotic selection. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the most common pathogens causing bacterial conjunctivitis,...

Isolation of Pasteurella multocida was attempted from the heart blood, spleen, liver and lung collected from rabbits (4 No,s) suspected to have died of pasteurellosis. A total of four P. multocida isolates were isolated and identified on the basis of biochemical characteristics, pathogenicity studies in mice and PM-PCR. The In vitro antibiotic sensitivity test of the organisms was conducted whi...

Background Urinary tract infection (UTI), are the most frequent and serious infection in childhood around the world. The present study aimed to evaluate antibiotic sensitivity of urinary tract pathogens among children in Zahedan, South East Iran. Materials and Methods This cross-sectional study analyzed 396 patients aged 1-18 years with positive urine and suspected UTI. Gender and age of childr...

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...

We describe a neural network based vision system and a number of rule based expert systems for use in antibiotic sensitivity testing and reporting. The vision system detects bacterial growths on agar plates. The major expert system generates antibiotic treatment recommendations. The systems are embedded in the normal work ow of the laboratory. We also describe the embedding principles used and ...