OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to determine the frequency and antimicrobial profile of ESBL-producing isolates of E. coli in different environments. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at The Children's Hospital and The Institute of Child Health, Lahore from July to December 2015. The faecal specimens from healthy individuals, patients, sewage sludge, cattle, chickens and raw ...

OBJECTIVE To examine morbidity experience, pattern of nutrition status and development of the children born to HIV infected mothers under the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Program compared to the national standard. MATERIAL AND METHOD In 2008, births given by mothers under PMTCT in five selected hospitals of Health Region 4 of Thailand between 2002 and 2006 were identifie...

AIM To investigate whether maternal intravenous beta-mimetic tocolytic therapy increases the risk of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and poorer behavioural and developmental outcomes. METHOD Our study is a prospective case-control study among 90 children between 1.5 and three years old. Cases (n = 46) were toddlers with betamimetic tocolytic exposure; control group toddlers (n = 44) were to...

Introduction: Metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL)-producing Acinetobacter is a therapeutic challenege all over the world. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of MBL genes and evaluate the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of carbapenem non-susceptible isolates of Acinetobacter. Material and Method: During a period of 12 months (November 2012 to October 2013) 94 isolates of carba...

In Argentina, there is no information on ages of attainment of developmental milestones and very few data about environmental factors that influence them. A national survey on the psychomotor development of children under 6 years of age was carried out with the help of 129 paediatricians. Logistic regression was applied to a final sample of 3573 healthy, normal children in order to estimate sel...

Salmonellosis and shigellosis are significant and persistent causes of diarrheal diseases among humans in developing countries. With that in mind, the current study investigates the occurrence of plasmid-encoded multidrug resistances in Salmonella and Shigella from diarrheal cases among humans. The isolates were characterized by serotyping, antimicrobial-susceptibility testing, transfer experim...

In this study, the presence of extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) producing organisms in abattoirs, a non-hospital community was investigated. The presence of ESBL-producing phenotypes was confirmed by the Double Disc Synergy Test (DDST). Out of the 99 isolates screened for ESBL, 28 (28.3%) were confirmed positive. The positive isolates were characterised by using Matrix-Assisted Laser Des...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Resistance to a wide variety of common antimicrobials has made the proliferation of Extended spectrum β-lactmase (ESBL) producing strains a serious global health concern that has complicated treatment strategies. The high proportion of ESBL producers among the Enterobacteriaceae and the complex molecular epidemiology with diverse types of ESBL genes are alarming. This ...

This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Extended-spectrum -lactamase (ESBL) and their antibiotic resistance patterns from clinical isolates in a university hospital. A total of One hundred and seventy-two isolates of Gram-negative were identified using Standard Laboratory Methods from various clinical specimens. Antibiotics susceptibility test was performed using disc diffusio...