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Bacteriemia recurrente por Bordetella bronchiseptica en un paciente con trasplante de medula ósea

Biomédica (Bogotá); 35 (3), 2015
Se reporta un caso de bacteriemia recurrente por Bordetella bronchiseptica en un paciente inmunocomprometido con antecedentes de trasplante alogénico de medula ósea por síndrome mielodisplásico, quien ingresó al hospital por síndrome febril. Bordetella bronchiseptica es un agente patógeno veterina...

KPC and VIM producing Enterobacter cloacae strain from a Hospital in Northeastern Venezuela

Invest. clín; 56 (2), 2015
An 83-year-old male patient is admitted to the central hospital in Cumaná, Venezuela with severe urinary infection, history of hospitalizations and prolonged antimicrobial treatments. A strain of Enterobacter cloacae was isolated showing resistance to multiple types of antibiotics (only sensitive to gen...

Primary drug resistance in a region with high burden of tuberculosis: A critical problem

Salud pública Méx; 57 (2), 2015
Objective. To determine rates of drug resistance in new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in a region with a high burden of the disease. Materials and methods. New case suspects were referred for drug susceptibility testing. Results. 28.9% of new cases were resistant to at least one first line drug; 3.9% h...

Multiple antibiotic susceptibility of polyphosphate kinase mutants (ppk1 and ppk2) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 as revealed by global phenotypic analysis

Biol. Res; 48 (), 2015
BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is known to be a multidrug resistant opportunistic pathogen. Particularly, P. aeruginosa PAO1 polyphosphate kinase mutant (ppk1) is deficient in motility, quorum sensing, biofilm formation and virulence. FINDINGS: By using Phenotypic Microarrays (PM) we analyzed near 20...

Caracterización de un brote de infección o colonización por Acinetobacter baumannii, en el Hospital Universitario San José, ESE, Popayán, Colombia

Rev. colomb. cir; 29 (1), 2014
Objetivo. Caracterizar un brote de infección o colonización por Acinetobacter baumannii. Materiales y métodos. Se llevó a cabo un estudio de 37 pacientes con diagnóstico de infección o colonización por A. baumannii hecho por cultivo positivo para dicho germen, entre enero de 2009 y diciembre de 20...

Detection of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients with and without HIV infection in a rural setting

West Indian med. j; 62 (2), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the sensitivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by nitrate reductase assay (NRA) and the Hain molecular line probe assay (LPA) in sputa of tuberculosis (TB)/HIV co-infected patients in Guyana. DESIGN: Sputum samples were collected from known TB patients at Georgetown Chest Clinic and ...

Perfil de resistência antimicrobiana de Escherichia coli isoladas do açude Santo Anastácio, Ceará, Brasil

Este trabalho objetivou caracterizar a resistência antimicrobiana de 43 cepas de Escherichia coli isoladas do açude Santo Anastácio (Fortaleza, CE), durante os meses de janeiro a abril de 2007. As cepas foram submetidas a testes de suscetibilidade a oito antimicrobianos, tendo 67,4% delas apresentado ...

Brote de infección por Enterococcus faecium resistentes a glicopéptidos en un hospital de Rosario, Argentina
Infection outbreak due to resistant Enterococcus faecium to glycopeptides in a Hospital of Rosario, Argentina

Enterococci causes serious illness in immunocompromised patients and in severely ill, hospitalized patients. They are commonly isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract, and resistance to vancomycin has increased in frequency during the past few years. We report three cases of nosocomial vancomycin ...