The aim of this study was to assess the frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility of Enterobacter isolated from clinical specimens of patients in a tertiary hospital. We collected different samples mostly from intensive care units (ICU), including sputum, central venous catheters, samples from infected surgical sites, from endotracheal and urethral catheters. Disk diffusion test was used to st...

The search for novel antimicrobial agents to combat microbial pathogens is intensifying in response rapid drug resistance development current antibiotic therapeutics.

T use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals can result in antimicrobial drug–resistant infections in humans. A good example is the use of fluoroquinolone in poultry and the emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections among humans. However, topics of intense debate include the widespread use of antimicrobial drugs in animals, the extent to which antimicrobial drug ...

BACKGROUND The misuse of antimicrobial agents increases drug resistance in bacteria. METHODS The correlation between antimicrobial agent consumption and related resistance in the Gram-negative bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Proteus mirabilis was analyzed during the period 2003-2011. RESULTS Among these five bacteria, ov...

T use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals can result in antimicrobial drug–resistant infections in humans. A good example is the use of fluoroquinolone in poultry and the emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections among humans. However, topics of intense debate include the widespread use of antimicrobial drugs in animals, the extent to which antimicrobial drug ...

Escherichia coli often carries linked antimicrobial resistance genes on transmissible genetic elements. Through coselection, antimicrobial use may select for unrelated but linked resistance or virulence genes. This study used unconditional statistical associations to investigate the relationships between antimicrobial resistance phenotypes and antimicrobial resistance genes in 151 E. coli isola...