INTRODUCTION Urinary tract infection is the most frequently diagnosed kidney and urologic disease, and Escherichia coli is by far its most common etiological agent. Uropathogenic E. coli are responsible for approximately 90% of urinary tract infections seen in individuals with ordinary anatomy therefore, it is essential to review the antibiogram of uropathogenic E. coli periodically to help cli...

Adherence factors and enterotoxins are major virulence factors of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC). Antibiotics have been used frequently for the treatment and prevention of ETEC infection in piggeries worldwide, including Korea. Therefore, data on both virulence profiles and antibiotic resistance patterns are useful in the epidemiological study of ETEC. A total number of 198 E. coli fie...

OBJECTIVE To determine the commonest organism cultured from the blood of children suspected to have bacterial sepsis and their antibiogram sensitivity using the commonly used antibiotics in a private practice and see if there are differences from established data from other areas. METHOD Children beyond neonatal age presenting to a children's specialist hospital in southeast Nigeria over a 2 ...

Objectives To determine whether a smartphone app, containing local bacterial resistance patterns (antibiogram) and treatment guidelines, improved knowledge of prescribing antimicrobials among medical trainees. Methods We conducted a prospective, controlled, pre-post study of medical trainees with access to a smartphone app (app group) containing our hospital's antibiogram and treatment guidel...

In order to evaluate the direct-method test of sensitivity to drugs used in the principal tuberculosis treatment regimes, in the Organon Teknika MB/BacT system, we tested 50 sputum samples positive to microscopy taken from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and with clinical indications for an antibiogram, admitted sequentially for examination during the routine of the reference laboratory. T...

Hospital antibiograms are compiled from facility microbiology laboratories and list specific organism-antimicrobial susceptibility combinations. Antibiograms can then be used by facility health care providers to guide choices of antimicrobials for treatment. For a specific time period, antibiograms from different facilities can be aggregated. These summaries are quick and easy to compile and ca...

The outbreak of waterborne disease cholera has been associated with rainfall and flooding events by contamination of potable water with environmental Vibrio cholerae. The continuation of the epidemic in a region, however, is often due to secondary transmission of the initial outbreak strain through human waste. This paper reports, on the contrary, a rapid shift of genotype from one V. cholerae ...

Urinary tract infection is one of the most common diseases in children. It is associated with high morbidity and long term complications. The current study was undertaken to determine the bacteriological profile and antibiogram of uropathogens causing UTI among the pediatric age group. The study population included 0 to12 years old patients, who were clinically suspected to have a UTI. The urin...

Antibiograms and lipid analyses of Serratia marcescens pigmented strain 08 and its nonpigmented variants are compared. The overall lack of significant differences between pigmented and nonpigmented strains suggests that the role of pigment formation may not be related to antibiotic susceptibility.

Ninety-four strains of H(2)S-negative Citrobacter were biochemically characterized and their antibiograms were determined. The antibiograms demonstrated not only a difference from Enterobacter cloacae but also a difference within the Citrobacter group between the indole-negative and indole-positive strains. These differences were statistically significant and emphasize the importance of the ind...