Results 01.04.11/01.04.1215 VAP.Clinical diagnosis: support clinical radiological+new infiltrate 80%. Extension of previous infiltrate + clinical worsening (2nd pneumonia)20%Germ: A. baumanii 44.44%: resistance: amikacin, ampicilin, imipenem, tobramicin P. aeuroginosa 22.22%: resistance: amikacin, ceftacidim, ciprofloxacin, colistin, imipenem, levofloxacin, meropenem, piperacilinatazobactam (P-...

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) guideline for hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) released in 1996 and the Trouillet classification published in 1998 supply different rational foundations for the classification of patients with HAP and for the selection of initial antibiotic therapy. The aims of this study were to assess the level of bacterial coverage and to assess and validate the adequacy ...

AIM to determine the prevalence of carbapenemase encoding genes (blaIMP-1, blaVIM-2, blaKPC-2, blaOXA-48, and blaNDM-1) of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumanii isolated from the intensive care unit patients as pathogens, in Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital (ICU-RSCM) in 2011. METHODS we examined the carbapenemase encoding genes in the clinical ...

AIMS To determine whether essential oil (EO) vapours could reduce surface and airborne levels of bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). METHODS AND RESULTS The antibacterial activity of geranium and lemongrass EO individually and blended were evaluated over a range of concentrations by direct contact and vapour diffusion. The EO were tested in vitro against a s...

Methods On June 2010, a VAP prevention bundle was implemented in province of Murcia (Spain) This bundle included: appropriate airway secretions management, strict hand hygiene, cuff pressure control, oral hygiene with chlorhexidine, semi-recumbent positioning and selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) with a short course of parenteral antibiotic. On april 2011 was implemented “N...

Certain serovars of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica cause invasive disease (e.g., enteric fever, bacteremia, septicemia, meningitis, etc.) in humans and constitute a global public health problem. A rapid, sensitive diagnostic test is needed to allow prompt initiation of therapy in individual patients and for measuring disease burden at the population level. An innovative and promising new r...

Agave tequilana Weber var. 'Azul' is grown for the production of tequila, inulin and syrup. Diverse bacteria inhabit plant tissues and play a crucial role for plant health and growth. In this study culturable endophytic bacteria were extracted from leaf bases of 100 healthy Agave tequilana plants. In plant tissue bacteria occurred at mean population densities of 3 million CFU/g of fresh plant t...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short proteins with antimicrobial activity. A large portion of known AMPs originate from insects, and the number and diversity of these molecules in different species varies considerably. Insect AMPs represent a potential source of alternative antibiotics to address the limitation of current antibiotics, which has been caused by the emergence and spread of mult...

More than three-quarters of deaths related to major burns are a consequence of infection, which is frequently ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP). A retrospective study was performed, over a five-year period, of ventilated children with major burns. 92 patients were included in the study; their mean age was 3.5 years and their mean total body surface area burn was 30%. 62% of the patients sus...

Nosocomial infection is a major problem in hospitals worldwide. Understanding patterns of bacterial etiology and antibiotic susceptibility are important factors to combating nosocomial infection. Among children with nosocomial bloodstream infection (BSI), we identified pathogens and determined antibiotics resistance patterns and mortality rates for antibiotic-susceptible and multidrugresistant ...