Antibiotic Consumption Point Prevalence Survey in a Teaching Hospital in Guatemala

Antibiotic Consumption Point Prevalence Survey in a Teaching Hospital in Guatemala

Correlating antibiotic consumption with antimicrobial resistance of uropathogens in a university teaching hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE This study was carried out to correlate the antibiotic consumption rates with the antibiotic resistance rates of uropathogens in Lagos University Teaching Hospital. METHODOLOGY Urine specimens obtained over 18 months (between January 2005 and June 2006) were processed for microscopy culture and sensitivity, and records of antibiotics dispensed during the same periods were reviewed. ...

European Surveillance of Antibiotic Consumption (ESAC) point prevalence survey 2008: paediatric antimicrobial prescribing in 32 hospitals of 21 European countries.

BACKGROUND Antimicrobials are the most common medicines prescribed to children, but very little is known about patterns of hospital paediatric antimicrobial prescribing. This study aimed at describing paediatric antimicrobial prescribing in European hospitals to identify targets for quality improvement. METHODS The European Surveillance of Antibiotic Consumption (ESAC) project (www.esac.ua.ac...

Prevalence, Aetiology and Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Coagulase Negative Staphylococci Isolated in a Teaching Hospital

In this paper we carried out a study about prevalence of the clinically significant coagulase negative staphylococcal (CNS) isolates found in an university hospital. Two hundred four CNS isolates from 191 patients obtained between the period of 1998 to 2002, were studied. About 27% (52/191) of the infection cases studied were confirmed as CNS-associated diseases. Blood stream infection (BSI) wa...

antibiotic consumption in intensive care unit of bouali teaching hospital, qazvin-iran