To assess the pattern of antibiotic utilisation and outcome of patients with bacteraemia in the hospital. All positive blood cultures (BC) over a 12-month period from January 2011 to December 2011 were retrospectively reviewed. Positive BC were recorded in 54 patients. 51.9% of the patients received antibiotics before or soon after obtaining the BC, and ceftriaxone was the most frequently-presc...

The timely detection of blood-borne pathogens is one of the most important functions of the microbiology laboratory. Recently, methicillin-resistant staphylococci have become the most important pathogens seen by the laboratory. The purpose of this study was to evaluate Staphy agar, a novel screening medium, for the detection methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis, or other ...

results out of 2229 suspected meningitis cases, 255 (11.4%) were detected as positive culture. most of the isolates were gram-positive cocci, which 116 (45.5%) were staphylococcus epidermidis, and 20 (7.8%) identified as streptococcus spp. among gram-negative isolates, escherichia coli and acinetobacter spp., each with 19 isolates (5.9%), were predominant. overall, the most effective antibiotic...

A total of 447 urine samples were processed in the Department of Microbiology . In this retrospective study 164 isolates 70.72% were E.coli and 16.46% were Gram negative bacteria other than E.coli, 12.80 % were Gram positive cocci. Antimicrobial susceptibility of uropathogens was tested by disc diffusion method. The Enterobacteria other than E.coli (n=27) were predominantly of Klebsiella over o...