Consumer demand for affordable fish drives the ever-growing global aquaculture industry. The intensification and expansion of culture conditions in the production of several finfish species has been coupled with an increase in bacterial fish disease and the need for treatment with antimicrobials. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance prevalent in aquaculture environ...

OBJECTIVES Cholera is a major gastroenteric disease with reports on fluctuation and resistance. Hence, the objective is to determine the trend in seasonality, resistance pattern, prevalent biotypes, serotypes and phage types between 2004 and 2013 among Vibrio cholerae isolates. DESIGN A retrospective cross-sectional study. SETTINGS A single-centre study was carried out at a tertiary care ho...

The aim of this study was to determine antimicrobial resistance patterns of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bovine subclinical mastitis. California Mastitis Test was used for 2,160 quarters of 540 dairy cattle in 8 commercial dairy farms of Alborz province, Iran. Antimicrobial susceptibility test was performed by the disk diffusion method on Mueller Hinton agar. The results indicated that S...

pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important life-threatening nosocomial pathogen and plays a prominent role in serious infections in burned patients. the current study was undertaken to characterize p. aeruginosa strains isolated from burned patients in tehran, iran. the study was conducted in a major burn center in tehran, iran in 2007. a total of seventy specimens obtained from different clinical ...

INTRODUCTION Analyzing antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Uropathogens helps to overcome the therapeutic difficulties created by the emerging antimicrobial resistant bacteria and guides in choosing appropriate empirical therapy. The aim of the study is to understand the susceptibility patterns of the uropathogens which assists in choosing the empirical therapy for UTI. Midstream urine samples...

background and objectives: infection is the most common problem following burn injury. selection and dissemination of intrinsic and acquired resistance mechanisms increase the probability of burn wound colonization by resistant species including pseudomonas aeruginosa. multi-drug resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa has frequently been reported as the cause of nosocomial outbreaks of infection in b...

background :    pseudomonas aeruginosa is a severe challenge for antimicrobial therapy, because of chromosomal mutations or exhibition of intrinsic resistance to various antimicrobial agents such as most β-lactams. we undertook this study to evaluate the existence of sme, aim and vim metallo-beta lactamases encoding genes among p. aeruginosa strains isolated from icu patients in al-zahra hospit...

background : the emergence and increase in the incidence of extended-spectrum beta lactamase (esbl) producing escherichia coli has become an emerging challenge especially in hospitalized patients with uti. the aim of the present study was to survey the frequency of bla ctx-m genotype in esbl producing e. coli isolated from hospitalized patients with uti and determination of their antibiotic res...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to describe the geographical and seasonal distributions of reported human Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) definitive type 104 (DT104) cases, to compare these characteristics to those of non-DT1 04 cases, and to investigate specific antimicrobial resistance (AMR) patterns in four Canadian provinces. METHODS All laboratory-confirmed ST cases originating from pass...