background staphylococcus aureus is associated with different infections ranging from skin and soft tissue infections to endocarditis and fatal pneumonia. s. aureus is still the most common bacterial species isolated from inpatient specimens and the second most common from outpatient specimens. today, methicillin resistant s. aureus (mrsa) isolates are present in the hospitals of most countries...

Uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) are common in primary care. Whilst primary care physicians are called to be antimicrobial stewards, there is limited primary care antibiotic resistance surveillance and physician antibiotic prescription data available in southern Chinese primary care. The study aimed to investigate the antibiotic resistance rate and antibiotic prescription patterns i...

the aim of this study was to determine the occurrence and the level of antibiotic resistance patterns in 62 salmonella isolates obtained from broiler chicken farms in amol, iran to common antibiotics in iranian poultry industry. antimicroibia resistance testing was performed using 7 useful antibiotics tetracycline, flumequin, lincospectin, florfenicol, neomycin, danofloxacin and enrofluxacin fo...

Comparative study of antibiotic resistance patterns of one hundred Staphylococci isolates comprising of fifty from clinical and fifty from environmental samples were evaluated. The isolates were identified to species level by use of both classical and APIStaph identification kit, screened for beta-lactamase production and their antibiograms determined using agar diffusion technique. Five specie...

background: acute infectious diarrhea is one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. objectives: the objective of this study was to characterize antimicrobial resistant diarrheagenic escherichia coli strains isolated from diarrheic children in tehran, ir iran. patients and methods: in total, 550 stool samples from diarrheic pediatric patients, aged less than 60 months...

The document Antibiotic Resistance in Spain: What Can Be Done? was prepared in 1994 by an ad hoc Task Force under the auspices of the Spanish Ministry of Health. The problem of the development of antibiotic resistance in community-acquired bacterial pathogens in Spain and its relation to antibiotic use and consumption has been of both national and international concern. This document analyzes t...

background in recent decades, bacterial antibiotic resistance (especially in enterococci) has become a significant problem for human and veterinary medicine. one of the most important antibiotic resistances in enterococci, vancomycin resistance, is encoded by van gene family. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate antibiotic resistance to vancomycin in enterococci and the genes res...

Various culture-based methodologies are used in assessment of antibiotic resistance in samples collected in agroecosystems. Culture-based methods commonly involve isolating target bacteria on general or selective media and assessing growth in response to specific concentrations of antibiotics. The advantages of culture-based methods are multifold. In particular, isolation of bacteria is key to ...

There is growing concern that metal contamination functions as a selective agent in the proliferation of antibiotic resistance. Documented associations between the types and levels of metal contamination and specific patterns of antibiotic resistance suggest that several mechanisms underlie this co-selection process. These co-selection mechanisms include co-resistance (different resistance dete...