Airborne Gram Negative Bacilli in the Indoor Environment of King Abdullah University Hospital, Jordan and Their Antibiotic Susceptibility

The Effects of Negative Reinforcement on Increasing Patient Adherence to Appointments at King Abdullah University Hospital in Jordan

Appointment nonadherence is a health behavior that represents a burden to health care systems. On March 1, 2015, a new negative reinforcement intervention involving "service fees" for a visit without appointment was implemented at King Abdullah University Hospital in Jordan. To evaluate the effect of this intervention in improving patient adherence to medical appointment, a retrospective preint...

GRAM NEGATIVE BACILLI IN BURNS

In a period of nine months, 225 strains of Gram-negative bacilli isolated from burns were identified by a variety of tests in two burn centers in Tehran. The most common species were Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter agglomerans, Enterobacter cloacae and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Many strains of acinetobacter spp, providencia spp, proteus spp, ser...

The Susceptibility Evaluation of Multiresistant Gram-Negative Bacilli to Meropenem and Imipenem

Introduction: Nosocomial infections are responsible for the much of the morbidity and mortality found in hospitals. The present study was conducted on 70 bacterial strains isolated from hospitalized patients in various medical units of Baqiyatallah Hospital in Tehran, Iran during a period of 12 months from; March to February 2009. Methods: The bacterial s...

Airborne Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria: Hospital Indoor Air Pollution and the Challenge of Nosocomial Infection

The incidence of antibiotic resistance in gram-negative bacilli in a general hospital.

Five antibiotics-penicillin, streptomycin, aureomycin, chloromycetin, and terramycin-are now readily available for the treatment of diseases due to bacterial infection, and for the treatment of wounds infected either primarily or by hospital cross-infection. There is considerable overlapping in the selective activity of these antibiotics in that they are effective against Gram-positive bacteria...