conclusions the results showed that enterococci are common contaminants in food. indeed, this study indicates a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant enterococci in food of animal origin in iran. isolating some persisting enterococcal isolates revealed that continuous surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in enterococci from food is essential. materials and methods thirty samples of meat, c...

The resazurin assay utilising microtitre-plate, described by Drummond and Waigh in 2000, has been modified to achieve more accuracy in the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of natural products, including crude extracts, chromatographic fractions or purified compounds against various bacterial strains. This modified resazurin method is simple, sensitive, rapid, r...

OBJECTIVES To compare the in vitro activities of vancomycin and linezolid against methicillin resistant Staphyloccus aureus in our set up to help in formulating a better empirical treatment and reduce the emergence of vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. METHODS The study was conducted over a period of 6 months (1st July 2009-31st Dec 2009). Fifty Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus a...

According to current interpretive criteria, Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates with ciprofloxacin minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of ≤ 0.06 μg/mL are considered susceptible. Intermediate and resistant MIC breakpoints have not yet been established but isolates of N. gonorrhoeae with ciprofloxacin MICs of 0.05 to 0.25 μg/mL have been associated with apparent treatment failure with a regimen ...

Commentary Background Reports of a gonorrhoea 'superbug' made the headlines last year following the description of a ceftriaxone-resistant i solate of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. 1 But is antimicrobial resistance a significant problem and what is the current reality of N. gonorrhoeae infection in the UK? Is gonorrhoea getting meaner? Anogenital infection with N. gonor-rhoeae has been highly responsi...

conclusions the results of our study showed that plant extracts have good antibacterial properties against pseudomonas aeruginosa and escherichia coli. objectives this research aims to discover the function of some medicine plants on pestiferous pseudomonas aeruginosa and escherichia coli in humans. materials and methods bacterial strains were obtained from a standard laboratory. the strains of...