BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Staphylococcus aureus is an important infection in hemodialysis patients. We studied the prevalence of nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and its antibiotic resistance pattern in patients receiving hemodialysis as well as in dialysis unit staff. MATERIALS AND METHODS From June to September 2012, we evaluated 74 cases including 61 pat...

sour cherry is one of the most important horticultural products in iran that consumes as fresh and dried fruit. in this research the effect of osmotic pretreatment on physicochemical, antioxiative and microbial characteristics of 4 cultivars of sour cherry: early jibilium, butermo, sigany and local were investigated. the samples were placed in different osmotic solution, dried and vacuum packed...

Bacterial antibiotic resistance is one of the major concerns of modern healthcare worldwide, and the development of rapid, growth-based, antimicrobial susceptibility tests is key for addressing it. The cover image shows a self-assembled asynchronous magnetic bead rotation (AMBR) biosensor developed for rapid detection of bacterial growth. Using the biosensors, the minimum inhibitory concentrati...

The prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 associated with feedlot cattle in Saskatchewan was determined in a 10-month longitudinal study (3 feedlots) and a point prevalence study (20 feedlots). The prevalence of E. coli O157 at the three different sites in the horizontal study varied from 2.5 to 45%. The point prevalence of E. coli O157 among Saskatchewan cattle from 20 different feedlots ranged ...

Surveillance data on the level of resistant bacteria is needed to inform strategies to reduce the development and spread of antibiotic resistance. The aim of this study was to determine the non-susceptibility trends to extended-spectrum cephalosporins and carbapenems among Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. isolates from the district of Nashik in Western India during the period 2004-2014. Ant...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common infection in primary care and is the second leading reason for prescription of antibiotics in Denmark. The diagnosis is often based on symptoms and urine dip-stick, which has limited validity, causing the risk of unnecessary antibiotic prescription. Additionally, with increasing antibiotic resistance, the risk of choosing an antibiotic to whi...

25 Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a multi-drug resistant organism increasingly isolated from the 26 lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. One hundred twenty-five S. maltophilia isolates from 85 27 CF patients underwent planktonic and biofilm susceptibility testing against 9 different 28 antibiotics, alone and in double antibiotics combinations. When S. maltophilia were grown as a 29 biofilm,...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is essential for guiding the treatment of many types of bacterial infections, especially in the current context of rising rates of antibiotic resistance. The most commonly employed methods rely on the detection of phenotypic resistance by measuring bacterial growth in the presence of the antibiotic being tested. Although these methods are highly sensitive fo...