Antibiotic resistance is an emerging problem worldwide present in many bacteria, speciallyS. aureus, P. aeroginosa, and E. coli that are consider as the most common group of bacteriaresponsible for nosocomial infections. This problem would be more serious and divesting indeveloping countries where there is not regular surveillance program for periodic antibioticresistance. In attempts to report...

Background: Otitis media with effusion is one of the leading causes of hearing loss in children. Effective treatment of effusion in the middle ear requires appropriate empirical treatment and characterization of responsible pathogens. Objective of the present study was to detect pathogens in clinical samples from patients with otitis media with effusion in our area and to determine the sensitiv...

Bacterial sensitivity and resistivity to any antibiotic tends to undergo temporal fluctuations. The clinical consequence of such behaviour is reduced effectiveness of a particular antibiotic to treat a specific bacterial infection. The forecasting system described in this paper uses a backpropagation neural network to model time series derived from bacteria-antibiotic sensitivity and resistivit...

background: otitis media with effusion is one of the leading causes of hearing loss in children. effective treatment of effusion in the middle ear requires appropriate empirical treatment and characterization of responsible pathogens. objective of the present study was to detect pathogens in clinical samples from patients with otitis media with effusion in our area and to determine the sensitiv...

When antibiotic sensitivity of microorganisms is tested by agar dilution, single antibiotics are incorporated in solid media and 'spot' inocula of test strains are applied to the antibiotic media and to a plate without antibiotic. The usual method of quality control is to include control strains of known sensitivity.1 However, control strains are usually sensitive to a number of antibiotics, an...

Enterococcus is the second cause of urinary tract infections in hospitals and the third most common cause of nosocomial bacteremia. Overuse of antibiotics for the treatment of nosocomial infections, causes antibiotic resistance in enterococci resistant to antibiotics through their ability to acquire resistance to antibiotics through mutation or acquisition of genetic material carrying a resista...

Campylobacter jejuni is one of the leading causes of human gastroenteritis. Campylobacter jejuni requires special conditions and media in the laboratory for its growth. In nature, however, this organism is able to survive in very diverse and hostile environments and produce disease in humans and animals. The different mechanisms by which C. jejuni survives stressful conditions in the environmen...