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Plasmid Dissemination and Selection of a Multidrug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain during Transplant Associated Antibiotic Therapy
... T he increase in carbapenem resistance among Enterobacteriaceae species is a world- wide threat (1, 2). Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in clinical ...
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Emerging threat of multidrug resistant bugs – Acinetobacter calcoaceticus baumannii complex and Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
... Medical wards and ICUs comprised the major domicile of ESBL producers. Third generation cephalosporin, such as ceftriaxone, cefotaxime and ceftazidime, are highly used in ICUs, even in our setting. Therefore, the ...
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Antibiotic Sensitivity Patterns of Urine and Biofilms in Patients with Indwelling Urinary Catheter in Denden Hospital, Asmara, Eritrea
... and multidrug resistance in our study, see Table 3, where ...were multidrug resistant isolates, the five antibiotics used for investigating multidrug resistance of the biofilm organisms were ...
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Characteristics of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Namibia
... roughly 70% of both cases and control. The association between previous TB treatment and MDR-TB has been noted in investigations in other countries [13-15,24,25], while more recent studies have observed that it is ...
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The effect of early versus late treatment initiation after diagnosis on the outcomes of patients treated for multidrug resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review
... Following removal of duplicates, two-stage screening against inclusion and exclusion criteria was executed independently by two reviewers (JN, AM), sifting first by title and abstract, followed by full-text sifting. A ...
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Low Detection Rate of Multidrug Resistant and Rifampicin Resistant Tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Trend Analysis 2013 2017
... However, the number achieved remains below the WHO estimates [7]. In 2017, there were 893 cases of MDR-RR TB and 19 XDR; that was below the ex- pected number of 3948 cases [5]. The national survey on TB drug resistance ...
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Prevalence and genetic characterization of carbapenem and polymyxin resistant acinetobacter baumanniiIsolated from a tertiary hospital in Terengganu, Malaysia
... were multidrug resistant (MDR) and resistant to carbapenems whereas 14 ...drug resistant (XDR) with additional resistance to polymyxin B, the drug of “last ...Eight resistant isolates ...
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Comparative Analysis of Multidrug Resistant, Non Multidrug Resistant, and Archaic Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Central Sydney, Australia
... groups: multidrug resistant (mMRSA), non-multi- drug resistant (nmMRSA), and ...only resistant to ciprofloxacin; and nmMRSA group 3, which was also nontypeable and generally resistant ...
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Treatment outcomes of patients with multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Hunan Province, China
... [2]. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), de- fined as TB resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), defined as MDR-TB plus ...
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Tigecycline based versus sulbactam based treatment for pneumonia involving multidrug resistant Acinetobacter calcoaceticus Acinetobacter baumannii complex
... There are some other limitations in this study. First, our respiratory specimens were clinical specimens from clinical practice, and they might not be obtained from deep sites in the lungs. Growths of etiologic pathogens ...
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Analysis of Multidrug Resistant NDM Producing Bacteria in ICU
... β-Lactam antibiotics were normally used to treat bacterial infections. The groups of antibiotics in this catagory include penicillins, cephalosporins, carbapenems & monobactams. Increased use of antibiotics, ...
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Influx of multidrug resistant organisms by country to country transfer of patients
... healthcare- and community associated infections world- wide [3]. It appears, however, to be regionally very differ- ently distributed. While prevalence rates in some countries such as the Netherlands or Scandinavian ...
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Vaccine Protection against Multidrug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Nonhuman Primate Model of Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
... The majority of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae clinical isolates in the United States and in other regions of the world are classified as multilocus sequence type 258 (ST258) (7). ST258 is comprised of two ...
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Phage Resistance in Multidrug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 Evolves via Diverse Mutations That Culminate in Impaired Adsorption
... to resistant outgrowth between coincidentally evolved and sequentially evolved P1 ⫹ P2-resistant mutants, suggesting the presence of a significant inoculum ...
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Engineered Endolysin Based “Artilysins” To Combat Multidrug Resistant Gram Negative Pathogens
... Evaluation of different endolysins as fusion partners. The PCNP tag was also fused to four additional endolysins from our collection, one with a modular structure (201 2-1gp229) and three smaller ones comprising only a ...
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CXC Chemokines Exhibit Bactericidal Activity against Multidrug Resistant Gram Negative Pathogens
... FIG 1 Bactericidal effects of CXC chemokines against CRE. (A) Carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae isolates and a species-matched control (ATCC 43816) are shown. Multilocus sequence types (MLSTs) and genes encoding ...
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New Variant of Multidrug Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Associated with Invasive Disease in Immunocompromised Patients in Vietnam
... ABSTRACT Nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS), particularly Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, is among the leading etiologic agents of bacterial enterocolitis glob- ally and a well-characterized cause of invasive disease ...
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Prevalence of rifampicin resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among presumptive tuberculosis patients in selected governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... drug resistant TB rates were stable in the last 10 years [12]. Drug resistant TB treatment is more complex than susceptible TB due to longer treatment time, increased toxicity and costs ...
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Multidrug resistant, extended spectrum β lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli isolated from a dairy farm
... The size of the zone of clearing around the antibiotic discs is represented by the colour spectrum in the diagram, with red representing no zone of clearing (not sensitive), red through to orange (resistant- zone ...
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Multidrug resistant tuberculosis
... are resistant to the major anti- tuberculosis drugs poses a deadly threat to control ...efforts. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR- TB) has been reported in all regions of the ...drug ...
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