BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The resistance of enteropathogenic bacteria to commonly prescribed antibiotics is increasing both in developing as well as in developed countries. Resistance has emerged even to newer, more potent antimicrobial agents. The present study was therefore undertaken to report the current antibiotic resistance in common bacterial enteropathogens isolated in a tertiary care hos...

The prevalence of ceftriaxone resistance and the associated genes encoding extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) was determined in 149 non-duplicate non-typhoidal Salmonella isolated in 2008-2009 from patients in a tertiary care hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The resistance rate to ceftriaxone was 2.7% (2/74) in 2008, 4.0% (3/75) in 2009, and 3.4% (5/149) overall. CTX-M ESBL genes were d...

The prevalence of ceftriaxone resistance and the associated genes encoding extended-spectrum b-lactamase (ESBL) was determined in 149 non-duplicate non-typhoidal Salmonella isolated in 2008–2009 from patients in a tertiary care hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The resistance rate to ceftriaxone was 2.7z (2/74) in 2008, 4.0z (3/75) in 2009, and 3.4z (5/149) overall. CTX-M ESBL genes were dete...

1197. Frequency of Antimicrobial Resistance in Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) Clinical Infections and Association with Epidemiological Factors Sanjana Mukherjee, MS; Rebekah Mosci, MS; Chase Anderson, -; Brian Snyder, BS; James Collins, MPH, RS; James Rudrik, PhD and Shannon D. Manning, PhD; Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State Un...

1197. Frequency of Antimicrobial Resistance in Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) Clinical Infections and Association with Epidemiological Factors Sanjana Mukherjee, MS; Rebekah Mosci, MS; Chase Anderson, -; Brian Snyder, BS; James Collins, MPH, RS; James Rudrik, PhD and Shannon D. Manning, PhD; Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State Un...

INTRODUCTION Food-borne infections and intoxications remain one of the most important public health issues globally, both in developing and in developed countries. Numbers of reported outbreaks of food-borne diseases and diseased people are constantly growing. For instance, a total of 320,000 of cases of food-borne diseases, caused by only 6 most prevalent bacterial pathogens (non-typhoidal Sal...

1197. Frequency of Antimicrobial Resistance in Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) Clinical Infections and Association with Epidemiological Factors Sanjana Mukherjee, MS; Rebekah Mosci, MS; Chase Anderson, -; Brian Snyder, BS; James Collins, MPH, RS; James Rudrik, PhD and Shannon D. Manning, PhD; Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State Un...

Raw produce is increasingly recognized as a vehicle of human gastroenteritis. Non-typhoidal Salmonella, pathogenic Escherichia coli, and other human pathogens have been isolated from fruits and vegetables in the field and in the marketplace, which led to the hypothesis that these microbes can use plants as alternate hosts. However, environmental and physiological factors that facilitate persist...

BACKGROUND Salmonella has significant public health implications causing food borne and zoonotic diseases in humans. Treatment of infections due to Salmonella is becoming difficult due to emergence of drug resistant strains. There is therefore need to characterize the circulating non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) serovars in domestic animals and animal products in Kenya as well as determine their ...