Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a stern public health problem and are caused by a wide range of pathogens, but most frequently by Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus. High frequency rates and increasing antimicrobial resistance among uropathogens threaten to greatly raise the economic load of these infections. Fe...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of PER-1-type ESBLs in drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. MATERIALS AND METHODS During one-year period (2008-2009), following isolation and identification of 56 P. aeruginosa, the E-test method was performed for determination of minimal inhibitory concentration of ceftazidim. The isolates that they had MIC≥16 µg/ml ...

ISSN 2330-4456 Abstract Objectives: Neonatal sepsis with extended-spectrum betalactamase (ESBL) producing microorganisms is recognized increasingly in recent years. ESBL can be produced by various bacterial strains. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of ESBL producing pathogens in neonatal sepsis and its impact on clinical outcome. Materials and Methods: A study was carried ou...

References 1 Cuzon G, Naas T, Truong H et al. Worldwide diversity of Klebsiella pneumoniae that produces b-lactamase bla KPC-2 gene. related Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates of sequence type 258 producing plasmid-mediated KPC carbapenemase in Norway and Sweden. et al. Plasmid-mediated carbapenem-hydrolyzing enzyme KPC-2 and ArmA 16S rRNA methylase conferring high-level aminoglycoside resistance i...

BackgroundThe base for common practice of cutting the umbilical cord after birth is in view of either that there is very little or no benefit by additional placental transfusion to the newborn. Active milking of the umbilical cord towards the baby prior to clamping (rather than passive) should take less than 10 seconds to perform and should resuscitation. Objectives1. Asses the selected neonata...

AIM The present study was conducted to isolate and characterize the extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) producing enteric bacteria in human beings in Mizoram, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fecal samples were collected from human beings with or without the history of diarrhea from different hospitals of Mizoram. Samples were processed for isolation and identification of Escherichia coli, Sal...

abstract background: pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most common gram negative bacteria involved in nosocomial infections. presence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (esbls) genes, play an important role in induction of resistance in beta-lactamase producing species to beta lactam antibiotics. frequency of resistance to these antibiotics is increasing. in this study, antibiotic sensitiv...

background :    unfortunately, antibiotic resistance has become an increasingly critical problem in many countries like iran. since there are very few published data on antibiotics resistance in alborz province, the aim of this study was to survey the pattern of antimicrobial resistance and prevalence detection of tem-type beta-lactamases among clinical isolates of escherichia coli using univer...