disk diffusion test is the usual applicable method for assessing the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in most institutions and hospitals. the aim of this study was to determine the reliability of resistant-reported results of disk diffusion test for 6 routinely used antibiotics against gram-positive microorganisms of nosocomial origin, using e-test method.    over a 1-year period, clinical ...

abstract         background and objective: one of the main tasks of clinical microbiology laboratories is to determine antibiotic resistance profiles in common pathogens and ensure the selection of effective antibiotics for certain infections. the aim of this study was to compare the methods of disk diffusion, broth microdilution and modified hodge test in escherichia coli isolates from urinary...

A total of 24 strains of the Mycobacterium fortuitum complex were tested for susceptibility to antimicrobial agents by the disk diffusion and agar dilution techniques. By comparing zones of inhibition obtained with the disk diffusion technique with results of minimal inhibitory concentration determinations, it was shown that disk diffusion results could predict in vitro susceptibility to select...

background. this study evaluated the antimicrobial activity of tetraacetylethylenediamine-sodium perborate (taed-sp) in comparison to 2.5% and 5% sodium hypochlorite (naocl) against enterococcus faecalis. methods. a standard suspension of e. faecalis was inoculated on 60 plates containing mueller-hinton agar culture medium. four sterile disks of beckman filtration paper were placed on each plat...

tigecycline is a new glycylcycline antibiotic structurally similar to minocycline antibiotic. it has broad spectrum activity, including staphylococcus aureus infections. this is the first study that evaluated the activity of tigecycline against staphylococcus aureus isolated from biological samples in iran. in vitro activity of tigecycline against 160 staphylococcus aureus including 99 methicil...

background and aims: escherichia coli are one of the important causes of diarrhea in children, adult and immune compromised ones in developing country. the aim of this study was to investigate the antibiotic resistance of e. coli isolated from gastroenteritis cases in shahrekord county, in order to obtain a rapid and suitable treatment. methods: in this descriptive analytical study, 234 fecal s...

plants are potent biochemists; biologically active compounds present in the medicinal plants have always been ofgreat interest to scientists working in this field. thus, the aim of the current study was to screen the antimicrobial activity of acacia nilotica, ziziphus mauritiana, bauhinia variegate and lantana camara against some selected clinical isolated strains. although previous studies hav...