Microbial pathogens implicated in urinary tract infection and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns as prevalent in UTI symptomatic outpatients resident in Benin City, Nigeria was the focus of this study. One hundred (100) midstream urine samples were collected into sterile plastic universal bottles from outpatients who visited the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria and who were ...

Soybean milk is a regular beverage commonly sold across the streets and markets in Nigeria beyond. The demand for soybean fast growing due to its affordability similarity dairy milk, including health benefits. However, there concern about public health-related issues associated with this artisanal products production, storage, distribution. primary objective of present investigation was evaluat...

313 blood samples were collected from bacteremia patients, including 146 (30 patients and 116 outpatients) Azadi teaching hospital, 36 the dialysis unit at Kirkuk General Hospital, 126 (42 inpatients 84 Children's 5 Women's Obstetrics Hospital in province, for period January 24, 2022, to September 10, 2022. The study, isolation diagnosis of bacteria study their resistance antibiotics, results s...

Endophthalmitis is a potential vision-threatening complication following surgical procedures (postoperative endophthalmitis [POE]), trauma (posttraumatic endophthalmitis [PTE]), and bacteremic seeding of the eye from a distant infection site (endogenous endophthalmitis [EE]). Several studies have revealed the polybacterial characteristics of endophthalmitis, which make the administration of ant...

OBJECTIVES Akacid plus is a new member of the polymeric guanidine family of disinfectants. It was especially developed to enhance the antimicrobial activity of this class with significantly less toxicity. The in vitro activity of Akacid plus compared with chlorhexidine digluconate and mupirocin was tested against a total of 369 recent clinical isolates. METHODS The organisms tested by CLSI re...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to compare the antimicrobial activity of linezolid and tigecycline with other commonly used antibiotics against a variety of clinical isolates at Royal Hospital, Muscat. METHODS Clinically-significant bacterial isolates in Royal hospital during the period from 1st of March to 30th of June 2007 were collected, stored and finally tested to determine their...

Urinary tract infections are a common cause of end-stage renal disease in Turkey. This prospective study investigated the antibiotic resistance patterns of uropathogens in order to recommend appropriate therapeutic protocols for children with urinary tract infections in Istanbul, Turkey. Between October 2007 and October 2008, children presenting with a first episode of urinary tract infection t...