antimicrobial resistance

Spread of multiresistant bacteria makes us to reconsider our attitude to some well-known old antimicrobials, including polymyxins – a class of polypeptide antibiotics that are active against many multiresistant gram-negative nosocomial pathogens – …

The purpose of the study – to determine antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella spp. and Salmonella spp. isolated in Ekaterinburg during June–September 1999. Susceptibility to ampicillin, ampicillin/sulbactam, ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, …

The purpose of the study – to determine the antimicrobial resistance of Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri isolated in Smolensk Region and to develop recommendations for empiric therapy of shigellosis. A total of 88 strains of S.flexneri and 69 …

This review is devoted to the one of the actual problems of modern medicine - nosocomial infections (NI). Criteria, epidemiology, pathogenesis, origin, risk factors for the development of NI are listed. A special attentionis drawnto the economical …