background: neonatal sepsis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity, especially in developing countries. the goal of the present study was to determine the bacterial etiology and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of neonatal sepsis.   methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 208 neonates admitted with clinically suspected sepsis over a period of 30 months. sepsis was divided into ...

Resistant bacteria in animal can be spread to environment and to humans. Poultry feed and infections caused by Eimeria spp. are important factors in determining the intestinal microbial communities. The aim of this study was to verify the prevalence of species and antimicrobial susceptibility of Enterococcus isolated from broilers fed with different supplements and infected experimentally with ...

We evaluated the Hyplex BloodScreen PCR-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system (BAG, Lich, Germany), a new diagnostic test for the direct identification of gram-negative bacilli and gram-positive cocci from positive blood cultures, with 482 positive BACTEC 9240 blood culture bottles. The test involves amplification of the bacterial DNA by multiplex PCR and subsequent hybridization of ...

Methods In this study we used a bacteriophage testing kit containing 4 types of Georgian products: PYO, INTESTI (Eliava BioPreparations, Tbilisi) and PHAGYO, PHAGESTI (JSC “Biochimpharm”, Tbilisi) to test the strains of Pseudomonas spp. and Enterococcus spp. isolated and stored from patients treated in the Adults II ward of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş”, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of uro-pathogens. SETTING Department of Pathalogy, Ziauddin Medical Hospital Laboratory, Karachi. METHOD A retrospective analysis was done on all the urine samples sent for culture and sensitivity during a seven months period. Two thousand eight hundred and forty four urine samples were received and inoculated in cys...

The purpose of this study was to determine the antimicrobial activity and occurrence of bacteriocin structural genes in Enterococcus spp. isolated from different cheeses and also investigate some of their virulence factors. Enterococcus strains were isolated from 33 different cheeses. Enterococcus faecium (6 strains) and Enterococcus faecalis (5 strains) enterocin-producing strains were identif...

U-76,252 is the prodrug of U-76,253. MICs of U-76,253 were 0.015 to 0.06 microgram/ml for greater than or equal to 90% of the strains of Streptococcus spp., Haemophilus influenzae, and Proteus mirabilis; 0.25 to 1 microgram/ml for Branhamella catarrhalis, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., and Citrobacter diversus; 1 to 8 micrograms/ml for Staphylococcus spp.; and 2 to greater than 16 microgram...

The broth microdilution (BMD) method is an antimicrobial susceptibility testing method defined as a guideline by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). To date, the Japanese Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (JVARM), has adopted the agar dilution (AD) method for monitoring antimicrobial resistances targeting isolates of Enterococcus spp., found in the fecal ...

Alteration of fecal flora was prospectively studied in 21 children receiving imipenem-cilastatin therapy under protocol for therapy of infections. Although no profound reduction in facultative or anaerobic flora was observed, qualitative and quantitative increases in organisms which were resistant or less susceptible to imipenem occurred. Of 21 patients, 13 (62%) had increases in counts of Ente...

Enterococcus spp. belong to the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) group and comprise more than 20 species. They are widely distributed in nature, and E. faecium and E. faecalis are the most frequent species. Enterococci may be used in food fermentation as starter cultures, being responsible for the formation of unique flavours. Some strains present probiotic properties due to health promoting effects....