background: failure in the treatment of burn patients infected with pseudomonas aeruginosa could happen as a result of the acquisition of antibiotic resistance, including carbapenems. objectives: the aim of the present study was to investigate the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of the pseudomonas aeruginosa strains, isolated from burn patients. patients and methods: during a 12 month ...

background and objective: acinetobacter baumannii is an aerobic non-motile gram-negative bacterial pathogen that is resistant to most antibiotics. carbapenems are the most common antibiotics for the treatment of infections caused by this pathogen. mechanisms of antibiotic-resistance in a. baumannii are mainly mediated by efflux pumps-lactamases. the aim of this study was to determine antibiotic...

conclusions molecular epidemiology studies of infectious diseases have been useful when bacterial isolates have been clustered in a period of time and in different geographical regions with variable antibiotic resistance patterns. in spite of high geographical differences and different antibiotic resistant patterns, low genetic diversity among the studied tb isolates may refer to the low rate o...

background acinetobacter calcoaceticus baumannii (acb) complex are gram-negative opportunistic bacteria with low virulence properties. their resistance to antibiotics has become a matter of concern in hospital infections. objectives the present study aimed to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of acb isolates collected from the nemazee hospital of shiraz. in addition, pul...

conclusions the obtained results revealed that there has been a high rate of genetic diversity in bioluminescent strains isolated from gulf of izmir and v. lentus and v. crassostreae strains could be also bioluminescent for the first report. at the same time, pfge analysis of bioluminescent bacteria including four different genera and ten different species were shown for the first time by this ...

Purpose: The present study aimed to confirm by classical and molecular laboratory methods hospitalassociated outbreaks due to virulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains. Methods: Eighty three Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated from new-born patients, adults and hospital environment and devices in five hospital units, were analyzed for resistance to antibiotics, including last generation cephalo...