background: recent analyses of hospital outbreaks have documented the spread of resistance to imipenem, which is cur­rently a major problem among gram positive and gram-negative bacteria. the aim of this study was to describe the rate of gram- positive and gram-negative isolates resistance to imipenem as an antibiotic. methods: recorded files of 242 hospitalized patients with at least one sampl...

Rapidly treating infections with adequate antibiotics is of major importance. This requires a fast and accurate determination of the antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial pathogens. The most frequently used methods are slow because they are based on the measurement of growth inhibition. Faster methods, such as PCR-based detection of determinants of antibiotic resistance, do not always provide ...

The most commonly used method for testing the antibiotic susceptibility of aerobic and facultative bacteria is the disk diffusion method. However, some anaerobic bacteria do not grow well enough in anaerobic jars for performance of disk diffusion tests. A modification of the broth-disk method of Schneierson allowed us to determine antibiotic susceptibility in a completely anaerobic environment....

BACKGROUND In an era of increasing antimicrobial resistance, knowledge of local antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of common uropathogens is essential for prudent empiric therapy of community-acquired urinary tract infections. OBJECTIVES To define antimicrobial susceptibility of Gram-negative uropathogens in northern Israel over a 10 year period and to compare it with patterns of antibioti...

Abstract To address knowledge gaps in management of Gram-negative bloodstream infections (GN-BSI), the Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation Collaborative (ASIC) programs from 24 academic and community hospitals across United States was established. Herein, we describe microbiology antibiotic susceptibility patterns GN-BSI isolates contributed by ASIC sites.

background and objectives: pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most important causative agents of nosocomial infections especially in icu and burn units. p. aeruginosa infections are normally difficult to eradicate due to acquired resistance to many antibiotics. recent appearance of carbapenem resistant p. aeruginosa isolates is considered a major healthcare problem. the present study was cond...

objective bacterial adhesion is governed by specific and nonspecific interactions such as hydrophobicity. hydrophobic interactions play a role in the adherence of microorganisms to a wide variety of surfaces and facilitate biofilm formation due to bacterial adhesion. in this article the relation between cell surface hydrophobicity and antibiotic resistance was studied. materials and methods we ...

background hospital-acquired infections caused by multi-drug resistant acinetobacter spp. are often extremely difficult to treatand this has proved to be a serious problem worldwide. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the incidence rates and distribution patterns of multi-drug resistant (mdr) acinetobacter spp. strains and the occurrence of acinetobacter-derived cephalosporinase ...

Objective Bacterial adhesion is governed by specific and nonspecific interactions such as hydrophobicity. Hydrophobic interactions play a role in the adherence of microorganisms to a wide variety of surfaces and facilitate biofilm formation due to bacterial adhesion. In this article the relation between cell surface hydrophobicity and antibiotic resistance was studied. Materials and Methods ...