"Survival of the fittest " holds good for men and animals as also for bacteria. A majority of bacteria in nature are nonpathogenic, a large number of them, live as commensals on our body leading a symbiotic existence. A limited population of bacteria which has became pathogenic was also sensitive to antibiotics to begin with. It is the man made antibiotic pressure, which has led to the emergenc...

Introduction: In both poor and developed countries, chronic suppurative otitis media affects 1-46 percent of the population. The incidence is much higher in Indonesia due to various factors, including sanitation, low socio-economic nutritional status, high population density. To reduce occurrence media, an adequate treatment required. Purpose: study was identify bacteria that cause ciprofloxaci...

background :  pathogenic bacteria because of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance genes are dangerous to society. this resistance due to esbl genes, plasmids and transposons that by receiving or mutation occurs. the most important factor beta-lactam antibiotic resistance is beta lactamase enzymes. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of hospital opportunistic pathogenic bacteria...

Abstract. Anelia N, Suhartono S, Hayati Z. 2023. Abundance and phenotypic-genotypic analysis of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from wastewater the Zainoel Abidin Hospital, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 24: 2294-2301. Excessive inappropriate use antibiotics can initiate emergence antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is believed to be a reser...

The number and properties of drug-resistant coliform bacteria in hospital and city sewage were compared. There was little difference in the counts of organisms with nontransferable resistance to one or more of 13 commonly used drugs. An average of 26% of coliforms in hospital waste water had transferable resistance to at least one of the drugs ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfonam...

The objective of this study is to provide fundamental data related to size-based characteristics of bioaerosol distributed in the general hospital. Measurement sites are main lobby, ICU, surgical ward and biomedical laboratory and total five times were sampled with six-stage cascade impactor. Mean concentrations of airborne bacteria and fungi were the highest in main lobby as followed by an ord...

OBJECTIVE To determine the bacteriology and antibiotic sensitivity of the bacterial isolates in chronic maxillary sinusitis patients seen at the Kenyatta National Hospital. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital, ENT department. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Seventy-three patients had bilateral sntral washout done and the lavage submitted for culture and anti-microbial se...

Background : Since recogntion of probable reservoirs of nosocomial infections is important for determining the kinds and antibiogram pattern of hospital pathogens in Shohadaye-Ashayer hospital environment, this descriptive cross- sectional study was done. Materials and methods: Totally, 1020 gowns were sampled in an interval of one month and three times of sampling. Samples were carried to lab...

bacteremia is an important infectious disease which may lead to death. common bacteria and pattern of antibiotic resistance in different communities are different and understanding these differences is important. in the present study, relative frequency and pattern of drug resistance have been examined in bacteria isolated from blood cultures in razi hospital laboratory. the method of the study...

Hospital-acquired infections are one of the main challenges and concerns of patients and medical staff in hospitals and healthcare centers. Meanwhile, Clostridium difficile infection is one of the most important bacterial hospital infections. Prevention is the best and most effective way to deal with these infections. Designing and using vaccines against these infectious microorganisms is the b...