Allergy to Betalactams is a widely suspected pathology, which is not regularly studied in Chile, leading to a misusage of antibiotics of other families. In this article a case report in a pediatric patient will be described, and a discussion about the studies needed for this pathology, and treatment wil...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: The emergence of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) is concernig because it reduces the antibiotic therapy options for bacterial infections. METHODS: Resistant and virulent genes from an isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae derived from a patient with sepsis in a hospital in Re...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Plant products are sources for drug development against multidrug resistant bacteria. METHODS The antimicrobial activity of Origanum vulgare L. essential oil (OVeo) against carbapenem-resistant strains was assessed by disk-diffusion, microdilution (REMA-Resazurin Microtiter Ass...
ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate the direct medical costs of drug therapy of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) infection patients in hospital-based context. Methods: A cost-of-illness study conducted with a prospective cohort design with hospitalized adults infected by KPC. Data collection was p...
Introducción. La resistencia bacteriana ha tomado importancia en salud pública, requiriendo estable-cer las relaciones existentes entre las infecciones, el manejo terapéutico y la expresión de los mecanis-mos de resistencia en microorganismos aislados en muestras hospitalarias. Objetivo. Reportar el...
ABSTRACT The global emergence of carbapenemases led to the need of developing new methods for their rapid detection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the rapid tests for carbapenemase-producing and non-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Carbapenem non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae fro...
ABSTRACT In this study, the performance of the "RESIST-3 O.K.N. K-SeT" (Coris BioConcept, Gembloux, Belgium) immunochromatographic assay was evaluated in 132 Klebsiella pneumoniae comprising 102 carbapenem resistant and 30 carbapenem susceptible isolates. Genotypically known isolates of Gram negative bac...
Se analizó un total de 274 muestras de orina de pacientes ambulatorios que
acudieron a los centros de salud 1, 2 y 3 de la ciudad de Cuenca durante el
periodo comprendido entre mayo y junio del año 2013, con el fin de obtener
al menos 100 muestras de orina con presencia de Escherichia coli.
Se rec...