Acinetobacter spp.
CarbAcineto NP Test for Rapid Detection of Carbapenemase Producing Acinetobacter spp
... In recent years, the spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobac- ter spp. has become a worldwide issue. In Acinetobacter spp., re- sistance to carbapenems may result from (i) decreased permeabil- ity ...
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Targeting Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter spp : Sulbactam and the Diazabicyclooctenone β Lactamase Inhibitor ETX2514 as a Novel Therapeutic Agent
... C Acinetobacter-derived cephalosporinases (ADC) and class D oxacillinases (OXA), as well as plasmid-mediated class A  ...clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates to ...
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Isolation and identification of Acinetobacter spp. from healthy canine skin
... animal hospital and rescue centre in central London. This is unlikely to be due to sampling error as both nutrient agar and LAM culturing was done from this clinic. These results from the only clinic in a city location ...
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Multidrug Resistant Acinetobacter spp : Increasingly Problematic Nosocomial Pathogens
... Pathogenic bacteria have increasingly been resisting to antimicrobial therapy. Re- cently, resistance problem has been relatively much worsened in Gram-negative bacilli. Acinetobacter spp. are typical ...
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Influence of relative humidity and suspending menstrua on survival of Acinetobacter spp on dry surfaces
... Usually, bacteria are shed from the human body in blood, sputum, or other body discharges. The bacteria may adhere to an inanimate surface and remain in liquid droplets for finite periods. Viability increases if ...
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Application of a Microsphere Based Array for Rapid Identification of Acinetobacter spp with Distinct Antimicrobial Susceptibilities
... for Acinetobacter species identification, including amplified 16S ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (30); ribo- typing (8); randomly amplified polymorphic DNA; the se- quencing of various genes, such as the ...
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Acinetobacter spp by NCCLS Broth Microdilution and Disk Diffusion Methods
... Although both broth microdilution (BMD) and disk diffusion (DD) are listed by NCCLS as acceptable meth- ods for testing Acinetobacter spp. for antimicrobial susceptibility, few studies have compared the ...
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Predictors of hospital mortality among septic ICU patients with Acinetobacter spp bacteremia: a cohort study
... of Acinetobacter bacteremia as a contributor to the increase in the risk of death are ...of Acinetobacter bacteremia reported that carbapenem resistance was an independent risk factor for 14-day mortality ...
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Evaluation of Double Disk Potentiation and Disk Potentiation Tests Using Dipicolinic Acid for Detection of Metallo β Lactamase Producing Pseudomonas spp and Acinetobacter spp
... Various inhibitor-based methods are commonly used to detect MBLs, but these techniques are not highly sensitive or highly spe- cific. A disk potentiation test (DPT) is also called a combined disk test. A DPT using ...
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Determination of imipenem efflux-mediated resistance in Acinetobacter spp., using an efflux pump inhibitor
... Carbapenems (imipenem, meropenem, ertapen- em and doripenem) are broad-spectrum antibiotics as well as the most effective antibiotics of β-lactams that are effective against most microorganisms and often used as the last ...
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Evaluation of the Hodge Test and the Imipenem EDTA Double Disk Synergy Test for Differentiating Metallo β Lactamase Producing Isolates of Pseudomonas spp and Acinetobacter spp
... Efficiency of screening and susceptibility of isolates. Consecutive isolates and CAZ-nonsusceptible isolates of P. aeruginosa and acinetobacters recovered in 2001 at the same hospital were tested by the Hodge test and ...
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Acinetobacter spp are associated with a higher mortality in intensive care patients with bacteremia: a survival analysis
... compared Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia with matched controls and found that Acinetobacter baumannii was not an independent pre- dictor for ...[6], Acinetobacter baumannii infection, including ...
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Rapid Determination of Quinolone Resistance in Acinetobacter spp
... PCR/ESI-MS is emerging as a very important method to accurately type A. baumannii and other Acinetobacter spp. (8). PCR/ESI-MS has also been employed to track epidemics of A. baumannii associated with war ...
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A Comparison of Clinical Profile and Outcome among Critically Ill Patients with Hospital Acquired Infections Caused by Acinetobacter SPP Versus Other Bacterial Pathogens
... of Acinetobacter species related hospital acquired ...environment Acinetobacter has been isolated from healthcare equipment, humidifiers, keyboards ...
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Original Research Article A Study on Microbiological and Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile of Endotracheal Aspirate in Patients Suspected of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Tertiary Care Hospital
... Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second most common hospital-acquired infection (HAI), accounting for 15% of HAIs and has the highest morbidity and mortality.[6] A large number of bacteria are found to be ...
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Pediatric Multicenter Evaluation of the Verigene Gram Negative Blood Culture Test for Rapid Detection of Inpatient Bacteremia Involving Gram Negative Organisms, Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases, and Carbapenemases
... This study had a number of limitations. First, few blood cul- tures grew Acinetobacter spp., K. oxytoca, and Proteus spp. Also, only five clinical blood cultures tested positive for a resistance ...
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Evaluation of Efficacy of the Current Disinfectants on Gram-negative Bacteria Isolated from Hospital in Yazd in 2014
... Materials and Methods: In this study, 240 samples were randomly collected from different parts of accidents and burn hospital before and after disinfection. The samples were cultured on blood agar and Eusion-Metilen-Blue ...
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Genetic diversity of human head lice and molecular detection of associated bacterial pathogens in Democratic Republic of Congo
... Unique haplotypes were defined by using DnaSPv5.10 to obtain head lice cytb sequences, then, compared and combined (Additional file 1: Table S1), with the cytb hap- lotypes previously reported [12]. In order to ...
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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF ABATTOIR WITH REFERENCE TO ESCHERICHIA COLI AND STAPHYLOCOCCUS SPECIES
... Escherichia spp with 39cfu, Staphylococcus spp 36cfu and Bacillus spp ...Staphylococcus spp had the highest average bacteria count, followed by Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp, ...
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Biochemical and molecular characterization of grape rhizospheric microorganisms in Vani and Nandur Naka regions of Maharashtra, India
... Universal primers were designed to identify species of isolated rhizospheric bacteria; universal primers were designed using NCBI genomic sequences of Azotobacter spp. For amplification PCR was programmed for 94°C ...
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