Despite the importance of gastrointestinal diseases and their global distribution, affecting millions of individuals around the world, the role and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of anaerobic bacteria such as those in the Bacteroides fragilis group (BFG) are still unclear in young children. This study investigated the occurrence and distribution of species in the BFG and enterotoxigenic ...

INTRODUCTION Development of antimicrobial resistance is an ongoing and increasing problem. To provide the best possible treatment for patients it is crucial that clinicians are aware of the local antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. The aim of this study was to present an overview of the percentage of bacterial isolates that are covered by the most commonly used antibiotics in the area of Cop...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in Helicobacter pylori isolated from the antrum and corpus of dyspeptic patients in Khon Kaen, Thailand, and to compare the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of H. pylori isolated from the antrum and corpus in individual patients. Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by disk diffusion, studying sus...

background: resistance patterns among nosocomial bacterial pathogens in hospitals may vary widely from country to coun­try at any given point and within the same country over time. acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important bacte­rium causes hospital acquired infections. therefore, surveillance of antibiotic resistance of a. baumannii is necessary, espe­cially in our country which the...

background bloodstream infection (bsi) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity and among the most common health-care associated infections. in this study we described the frequency of occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of nosocomial and community-acquired bsi isolates from a teaching hospital in tehran, iran. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was conduct...

the aim of this study was to isolate, identify and determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of clostridium perfringens (cp) isolates from acute necrotic enteritis of broiler chickens. all broiler carcasses diagnosed as necrotic enteritis (ne) were sampled, subjected to microbial tests and 40 isolates were identified according to standard procedures. the antimicrobial susceptibility of cp isol...

Antimicrobial resistance to penicillin and macrolides in Streptococcus pneumoniae has increased in the United States over the past decade. Considerable geographic variation in susceptibility necessitates regional resistance tracking. Traditional active surveillance is labor intensive and costly. We collected antibiogram reports from North Carolina hospitals and assessed pneumococcal susceptibil...

Ongoing surveillance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistance against antimicrobial agents is fundamental to monitor trends in susceptibility patterns and to appropriately guide clinicians in choosing empirical or directed therapy. The in vitro activity level of eight antimicrobial drugs was assessed against 97 clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa collected consecutively for three months in 2007 from...