conclusions in our study, inducible clindamycin resistance rate was 4%; so it is necessary to conduct d-test regularly by disc diffusion for this bacterium. resistance to erythromycin, clindamycin, ciprofloxacin and gentamicin was significantly higher in mrsa isolates than methicillin susceptible staphylococcus aureus (mssa), although the methicillin resistance prevalence was low. background st...

staphylococcus epidermidis is the most important member of coagulase negative staphylococci responsible for community and hospital acquired infections. most clinical isolates of s. epidermidis are resistant to methicillin making these infections difficult to treat. in this study, correlation of methicillin resistance phenotype was compared with methicillin resistance (meca) gene carriage in 55 ...

Ethanolic extract of roots and aerial parts of Achyranthes aspera was investigated for its antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus pumilus, and Proteus vulgaris and anti fungal activity against Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus flavus at 100 mg/disc using diffusion method. The comparative studies shown that ethanolic extract of roots and aerial parts of Achyranthes aspera ...

OBJECTIVE We identified a poor clinical response to treatment of cholera with a single 1 g dose of ciprofloxacin, a standard treatment for cholera. METHODS To determine reasons for the poor response and better therapeutic approaches we examined the minimal inhibitor concentration (MIC, n = 275) and disc-diffusion zone sizes (n = 205) for ciprofloxacin and nalidixic acid of V. cholerae O1 stra...

Rifaximin is a rifampicin derivative, poorly absorbed by the gastro-intestinal tract. We studied the in vitro susceptibility to rifamixin of 1082 Clostridium difficile isolates; among these, 184 isolates from a strain collection were tested by an in-house rifaximin disc (40 µg) diffusion test, by an in-house rifaximin broth microdilution test, by rifampicin Etest and by rpoB gene sequencing. In...

Thermal wave inspection techniques utilise controlled heat diffusion to probe the surface and subsurface structure of a component [1-3]. Various techniques have been developed which use localised intensity or spatially modulated laser heating for thermal wave generation [2] and a variety sensors, acoustic, optical, and thermal, for their detection [3,4]. The quantitative application of these te...

background: in recent years, drug resistance to human pathogenic fungi has been increased. medicinal plants are one way to overcome antibiotic resistance. the aim of this study was to evaluate the antifungal and inhibitory activity of five medicinal plants on the growth of candida albicans. methods: this study was done in the microbiology lab of shahid bahonar university of kerman, iran in 2015...