Isolate was characterized by biochemical and serological tests. Slide agglutination with typing antisera (Central Research Institute, Kasauli) produced a profile of O: 2,H: a. The isolate was sensitive to ampicillin, ampicillin-sulbactam, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid , tetracycline, chloramphenicol, gentamicin, ofloxacin, amikacin, erythromycin, ciprofloxacin, pefloxacin, and gatifloxacin. The p...

Background and Objectives Treatment using systemic antibiotic administration surgical drainage has been the common treatment modality for deep neck infection. This study compared changing pattern of isolated pathogens to recommend best empirical antibiotics infection.Subjects Method Reviewed retrospectively were medical charts 131 patients who, confirmed with infection, underwent pus cultures a...

Toxic epidermal necrolysis and Stevens-Johnson syndrome are rare, life treating cutaneous reactions. Most cases of toxic epidermal necrolysis are drug induced. The drugs with the highest estimated incidence include co-trimoxazloe (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole), sulfadoxine-pyrethamine, and carbamazepine. Among other drugs, the reported reaction rates are relatively low for lamotrigine and sulb...

We evaluated 582 Haemophilus influenzae isolates from patients between January 2000 and December 2004. Overall, 433 isolates were obtained from sputum and bronchial washings, 124 isolates were from pus, 19 isolates were from blood and 6 isolates form cerebrospinal fluid. H. influenzae was sensitive to amoxicillin/clavulanate, ampicillin/sulbactam, gentamicin, cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime...

In an attempt to assess the effect of antibiotic choice on the treatment of peritonsillar abscess, we compared the clinical efficacy of empiric intramuscular clindamycin and intravenous ampicillin/sulbactam (following needle aspiration of the abscess) in a prospective, randomized study of 58 patients. Patients in the clindamycin group were treated on an outpatient basis, whereas those in the am...

We report the case of a 62-year-old woman with Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia. She was admitted to our hospital with ventricular tachycardia and was subsequently diagnosed with idiopathic ventricular tachycardia, with no structural heart disease. However, 12 days after admission, she suddenly developed a high-grade fever with chills and diarrhea. Her blood cultures revealed A. baumannii, an...

BACKGROUND There are few reports in the literature of invasive infection caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis in patients without immunosuppression or other predisposing factors. The choice of antimicrobial therapy for bacteremia caused by the pathogen requires more case experience to be determined. CASE PRESENTATION The case of a 40-year-old previously healthy man with subacute endocarditis p...

Background: While preoperative antibiotic therapy is standard to prevent surgical site infections in acute calculous cholecystitis, prescribing antibiotics after discharge controversial. This study aimed investigate the effect of administration prescription on infections.
 Methods: Data from patients who underwent emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy for cholecystitis between January 201...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed on 3,627 isolates of Escherichia coli and 180 isolates of Shigella spp. collected in rural locations from 875 Egyptian children with diarrhoea between 1995 and 2000. The cumulative rates of resistance for E. coli and Shigella spp. were high (respectively, 68.2% and 54.8% for ampicillin, 24.2% and 23.5% for ampicillin-sulbactam, 57.2% and 42.5% ...