177. Trends in Carbapenem Susceptibility of Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates From LongTerm Acute Care Hospitals Across the United States-An Analysis of Antibiograms Sukhesh Sudan, MPH; Christina Cherian, MD; E. Goldstein, MD, RM; David W. Hines, MD; George Glenn, MS; Teena Chopra, MD, MPH; Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences...

A comparison was made of the performance of a newly established anaerobic section of a clinical laboratory and the routine diagnostic section in terms of isolation and identification of anaerobic bacteria. Both sections attempted to isolate obligate anaerobes from the same clinical specimens which were not transported in anaerobic containers. Anaerobic and diagnostic sections isolated anaerobes...

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria remains a major problem and environments that help to maintain such resistance, represent a significant problem to infection control in the community. Restrooms have always been regarded as potential sources of infectious diseases and we suggest they have the potential to sustain bacterial "resistomes". Recent studies have demonstrated the wide range of differe...

Aims : In this study in cirrhosis patients having spontaneous ascites infection (SAI) the investigation of the activity of cefepime being a fourth generation cephalosporin was aimed. Method: 19 patients diagnosed as cirrhosis and having acid infection were taken into the study. Cefepime doses were given to all patients having SAI by adjusting according to the clearance of creatinine, in interva...

Staphylococcal ocular infections of food animals have been somewhat under diagnosed probably due to the ubiquitous nature of staphylococcal organisms. This study was undertaken to determine the occurrence of staphylococcal ocular infections of food producing animals in Nsukka Southeast, Nigeria, and to determine the antibiogram of the isolated staphylococci. A total of 5,635 food producing anim...

Escherichia coli is a widespread bacterium encompassing a variety of strains, ranging from highly pathogenic strains, causing worldwide outbreaks of severe diseases to avirulent, well characterized safe laboratory strains. This study evaluated the prevalence and antibiogram profiles of E. coli pathotypes isolated from the Kat River and Fort Beaufort abstraction water. A total of 171 out of 278 ...

Klebsiella pneumoniae are common causative agents of nosocomial and community acquired infections and are leading causes of morbidity and mortality. This study gives an account of isolation of Klebsiella pneumoniae from various clinical specimens and their antibiogram, in this geographical area of North East India. Various clinical samples like sputum, urine, pus and blood sent to Microbiology ...

Objective: To determine whether there was any association between resistance to antibiotics and decreased susceptibility to antiseptics and disinfectants and their importance in clinical practice. Methods: We studied a large number of microorganisms isolated from ICU patients (high percentage of cases of antibiotic resistance). The antibiogram (Kirby-Bauer) was determined and, in parallel, the ...

AIM The aim was to determine the occurrence of Rhodococcus equi in equines and their environment in Jammu (R.S. Pura, Katra), molecular characterization and to determine the antibiotic resistance pattern of R. equi. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 96 nasopharyngeal swab samples were collected from equines. The organism was isolated on Columbia nalidixic acid agar containing 5% sheep blood as...

Article history: Received on: 11/05/2015 Revised on: 29/05/2015 Accepted on: 09/06/2015 Available online: 27/06/2015 Dental caries is one of the oldest disease in the world and its causative agent is mutans streptococci (MS). Among MS, Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus are implicated in caries active subjects. The objective of this study was to identify and determine the antibiogr...