Introduction: Neonatal sepsis is one of the major contributors mortality and morbidity among neonates. Irrational overuse antibiotics have led to an increase in antimicrobial resistance. This study was undertaken investigate bacteriological profile, resistance predictors blood culture-positive cases neonatal sepsis. Methods: Demographic data were collected from electronic manual case records. A...

INTRODUCTION This retrospective study was performed to evaluate the frequency of anaerobic bacteraemia over a 10-year period, and to provide updated antibiotic susceptibilities for the more clinically relevant anaerobes causing blood stream infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were retrieved from the laboratory information system for the period 2003 to 2012. During this time, blood cultures ...

background: to determine prospectively the prevalence of anaerobic and aerobic infection in early onset (during 72 hours of age) neonatal sepsis, in tehran vali-e-asr hospital. methods: among all the live birth, neonates suspecting of having septicemia were investigated for isolation of micro­organisms. culture bottle containing enriched tryptic soy broth was used for standard blood culture sys...

Objective: Blood culture are of vital importance in patient follow-up, as they enable the identification and production sepsis causative microorganisms, initiate antibiotic treatment a timely manner reduce mortality morbidity. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate microorganisms grown automated blood microbiology laboratory hospital terms quality indicators.
 Method: from BACTEC-9120 (Bec...

Levofloxacin, the active l-isomer of the quinolone ofloxacin, is now widely accepted for treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Because the drug is now widely used, we sought to establish susceptibility test conditions for Mycobacterium tuberculosis against levofloxacin by the traditional reference method, agar proportion (AP), the commonly used BACTEC 460 radiometric system, and the ne...

BACKGROUND Blood culture volume is the most important variable in detecting bacteremia and fungemia. However, the majority of hospitals in Taiwan do not meet the criteria for an ideal blood culture volume (8-10 mL per bottle, two bottles per set) during collection. METHODS The object of this study is to initiate an educational program for healthcare workers to increase blood volume collection...