INTRODUCTION In contrast with Escherichia coli, the association of E. hermanii with urinary tract infections has not been described. CASE PRESENTATION In this case, E. hermanii was the sole isolate recovered from urine specimens of a pyelonephritis patient. The organism was found to be susceptible to piperacillin-tazobactam, ceftazidime, cefazolin, cefixime, aztreonam, gentamicin, tobramycin,...

BACKGROUND Chronic supportive otitis media (CSOM) is one of the commonest illnesses in ENT practice. This study was conducted to find out the various aerobic microorganisms associated with CSOM and their current antimicrobial susceptibility patterns to commonly used antimicrobials. METHODS samples were collected from 117 clinically diagnosed cases of CSOM and processed according to standard p...

Potassium tellurite was assessed for the selection of verocytotoxigenic (VT+) Escherichia coli O157. MICs were higher for VT+ E. coli O157 than for other strains of E. coli and for Aeromonas spp. MacConkey medium containing sorbitol, tellurite and cefixime (TC-SMAC) permitted the growth of VT+ E. coli O157 and Shigella sonnei but partially or completely inhibited the growth of 67% of other stra...

The in vitro activity of BAY v 3522, a new orally absorbed cephalosporin, was assessed against 150 clinical isolates each of Haemophilus influenzae and Branhamella catarrhalis. The MIC90S for beta-lactamase-positive and -negative strains of H. influenzae were 8 and 2 micrograms/ml, respectively. For beta-lactamase-positive and -negative strains of B. catarrhalis, the BAY v 3522 MIC90S were 4 an...