background: Infections due to Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) represent a major but little-appreciated health threat. Proper antibiotic sensitivity testing and judicious use of antibiotics are crucial in treatment of such infections. Aims: This study was done to determine the spectrum of infections caused by ExPEC and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. settings and ...

background and objectives: methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) is a major nosocomial pathogen causing significant morbidity and mortality. the aim of this study was to evaluate in vitro activities of different antibiotics against methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. materials and method: the study was conducted over a period of one year (january 2009 - december 2009) in t...

Nosocomial infection is a major problem in the world today. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains, usually resistant to several antibiotics, shows a particular ability to spread in hospitals and is now present in most of the countries. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of MRSA infections and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in our hospit...

OBJECTIVE To study the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of MRSA isolates from patients in a tertiary care hospital. METHODS This was in-vitro study on MRSA isolates received from clinical samples in the department of microbiology during one year (March 2004-February 2005). All samples were processed by conventional method using sheep blood agar, MacConkey's agar and Chocolate agar plates....

OBJECTIVE Antibiotic resistance is a global problem and is more prevalent in developing countries. Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are recognized as important pathogen for nosocomial infections. This study was carried out to identify CoNS in various clinical specimens and to determine its antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. METHODS A total of 2989 specimens of blood, pus and wound s...

The present study was conducted to determine the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from sputum samples of lower respiratory tract infection patients admitted to different hospitals of Karachi. Most of the hospitals are hampered with high frequency of nosocomial infections generally caused by multiresistant nosocomial pathogen. Among Gram-negative pathogens Pseudomonas ...

salmonella enterica serotypes are one of the most important food borne pathogens and significant public health concerns around the world in humans and other animal species. a total of eighty three epidemiologically unrelated clinical isolates of salmonella enterica serovars were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing. eleven isolates (13.1%) which were resistant to at least 4 groups ...