conclusions due to the variable nature of antibiotic susceptibility patterns and etiological agents of septicemia, continual assessment of the most frequent pathogens associated with bloodstream infections and detection of their sensitivity patterns to locally available antibiotics seem to be reasonable measures. results from a total of 491 blood cultures, 74 (15.1%) samples were detected as po...

background neonatal sepsis is a serious problem in neonatal intensive care units, as it causes high rates of morbidity and mortality. objectives the purpose of this study is to evaluate various etiologic agents, antimicrobial susceptibility, clinical manifestations and the mortality rate in an intensive care unit in kashan, iran. patients and methods one hundred and four neonates with documente...

background and objective: urinary tract infection (utis) is one of the most common diagnosed infectious diseases. in order to determine the spectrum of bacterial etiology and antibiotic resistance pattern of the uropathogens that cause community acquired uti, a retrospective study was performed in research center of reference laboratories of iran on urine samples of referred patients during a 4...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Though not frequently but there are reports showing phacoemulsifiers as a potent source of infection in post-operative cases of endophthalmitis. This study was carried out to find antibiogram and genetic relatedness between Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from a post-cataract surgery endophthalmitis outbreak (3 patients) and internal tubings of 5 phacoemulsifiers. METH...

b ackground: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is the one of most commonly isolated organisms from clinical samples which can cause life- threatening infections. the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance makes the treatment of these infections more complicated. in this study, we aimed to determine  the  patterns  of  antibiotic  resistance  among  mrsa  isolates  from t...

backgrounds candida vaginitis is a common fungal infection among adult women and it has been estimated that 75% of all adult women experience at least one period of vulvovaginal candidiasis in their lifetime. several predisposing factors, such as diabetes mellitus,using contraceptive, pregnancy, and broad-spectrum antibiotics are reported as main risk factors for the infection. while, the main ...

Introduction The increasing incidence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is a concern both to the clinicians and the patients due to obvious consequences such as treatment failures, prolonged patients' stay in hospital and nosocomial infections. The choice of the first antibiotic therapy in emergency wards in hospitals is usually not based on patient-specific microbial culture and susceptibility ...

Title: A visual analytics antibiogram dashboard as part of a comprehensive approach to perioperativeantibiotic administration Authors: Luis M. Ahumada, MSCS, Allan F. Simpao, MD, Jorge A. Galvez, MD, Mohamed A. Rehman, MD,Jeffrey Gerber, MD, PhD, John Martin, MBA, Beatriz Larru, MD, Kaede Ota, MD, MSc, TeleneMetjian, PharmD, Bimal Desai, MD, MBIa The Children’s Hospital of Phila...

Introduction: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) which is mostly caused by microorganisms such as Acinetobacter and Klebsiella one of the causes death among patients in intensive care unit (ICU). Objectives: The aim this study was to compare disk diffusion method E-test detecting susceptibility strains isolated from lung secretions with VAP admitted ICU treated cefepime. Patients Methods: In...