Removal of heavy metals from wastewater needs advance chemical technology and is more expensive too. The cheaper alternative for this is the bioremediation using heavy metals resistant microorganisms. In this study, 10 heavy metal resistant bacteria were isolated from oxidation ditch of wastewater treatment plant of Bagmati Area Sewerage Project. These include chromium resistant Staphylococcus ...

Norfloxacin, a new quinoline derivative, was studied in vitro, and determinations of agar dilution minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and broth dilution MICs and MBCs were made. Nalidixic acid and cinoxacin were used as comparative agents. Norfloxacin was found to be extremely active against all strains tested of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., Proteus mirabilis, indole-positive Proteu...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common and occasional recurrent bacterial illness with an increasing resistance to antimicrobials. Antibiotic resistance in UTI is a growing public health problem in the world including Bangladesh. The study objective was to examine the present incidence of UTIs in Bangladesh in a point period of time from January to December 2007. A retrospective data analysi...

Surgical infections are mostly polymicrobial, involving both aerobes and anaerobes. One hundred seventeen cases comprised of abscesses (n=51), secondary peritonitis (n=25), necrotizing fascitis (n=22) and wounds with devitalized tissues (n=19) were studied. The number of microorganisms isolated per lesion was highest in secondary peritonitis (2.32). The aerobe/ anaerobe ratio was 0.81 in second...

Sixty specimens of fresh white cheeses, presented for sale in district bazaars at the center and in some towns of Canakkale, were analyzed microbiologically in this study. The Total Aerobic Mesophilic Bacteria (TAMB), Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas spp., Stahpylococcus aureus, Salmonella spp. and Brucella spp. bacteria, included in the specimens collected between February and October, were inves...

During 1997-2005, the microbiological quality and susceptibility of bacterial isolates of swimming pool waters were investigated. A total of 462 water samples were collected from three indoor swimming pools (a teaching pool, a competition public pool, a hydrotherapy pool) and two outdoor swimming pools (a hotel semi-public and a residential private pool) in Northwestern Greece. All water sample...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The production of carbapenemases is an important mechanism responsible for the carbapenem resistance. A simple and inexpensive testing method for screening of carbapenemase producers is essential. A prospective study was undertaken to detect metallo-beta-lactamases (MBLs) and AmpC beta-lactamases in nonfermentative Gram negative bacteria and to evaluate the various method...

Postpartum uterine diseases are important for both animal welfare and economic reasons, contributing to cow discomfort, elimination from the herd, and impaired reproductive performance. Although presence of Escherichia coli and Truperella pyogenes has been more commonly associated with uterine inflammation and impaired reproductive performance (Studer and Morrow, 1978; Bonnett and Martin, 1995;...

The study was carried out to investigate the current antibiogram status of bovine mastitis in and around Ranchi. The prevalence of mastitis was assessed by the results of bacteriological evacuation of mastitic milk samples collected from mastitis cases. A total of 150 cases of mastitis were studied for isolation followed by antibiotic sensitivity test. The major prevalent pathogens isolated wer...

The in-vitro activity of colistin sulphomethate sodium was compared with that of other commonly used antimicrobial agents against 377 recent clinical isolates of Gram-negative bacteria (including 94 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from patients with cystic fibrosis) and 16 organisms with defined resistance patterns. Colistin was active against most strains of P. aeruginosa (MIC90 4 mg/L), Shi...