OBJECTIVES The National Antimicrobial Surveillance Forum is a continuous surveillance organisation comprising all academic/public and private sector laboratories in South Africa. METHODS The antibiotic susceptibility of blood culture isolates of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter species, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Staphylococcus aureus from patient...

Bacterial pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics used commonly by healthcare practitioners. Despite introduction of new antibiotics, empiric treatment of patients with bloodstream infections (BSIs) became a major challenge for practicing physicians.1,2 To depict the susceptibility patterns of BSI pathogens endemic in a referral pediatric hospital, Children’s Medical Cente...

Fifty fish specimen belong to seven species; Acanthobrama marmid, Alburnus mossuleusis, Carasobarbus luteus, Cyprinus carpio, Garra elegans, G. rufa and Planiliza abu were examined. The samples collected from three sites on Tigris River in Baghdad City (Shawaka, ALkraiat ALatefia) during the period May October 2015. Total bacteria count for each of skin gills ranged 50 × 245 51 250 cells / g re...

The aim of this study was to analyse the qualitative composition of Gram-negative microbes, mainly of the family Enterobacteriaceae, including pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, in the albumens and yolks and on the shells of hens' eggs, depending on their source and on the temperature and duration of their storage. A total of 375 table eggs were studied, from a large-scale poultry farm, a ...

This study was carried out to investigate the epidemiological time-course of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase(NDM-) mediated carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae in South Korea. A total of 146 non-duplicate NDM-producing Enterobacteriaceae recovered between 2010 and 2015 were voluntarily collected from 33 general hospitals and confirmed by PCR. The species were identified by sequences of...

Clay minerals are naturally occurring layered phyllosilicates which consist of fine particles and possess antimicrobial activity. In a recent article, Behroozian et al. obtained Kisameet clay (KC) from Kisameet, from the central coast of British Columbia, Canada, northwest of Vancouver and assessed its antimicrobial activity versus 16 selected ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococ...

The presence of pan-resistant bacteria worldwide possesses a threat to global health. It is difficult to evaluate the extent of carriage of resistant bacteria in the population. Sewage sampling is a possible way to monitor populations. We evaluated the presence of pan-resistant bacteria in Israeli sewage collected from all over Israel, by modifying the pour plate method for heterotrophic plate ...