antimicrobial resistance

Production of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) is the one of most widespread and clinically significant mechanism of resistance to modern β-lactams in members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. But the effectiveness of routine methods of …

The mechanisms of resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics in Gram-negative nosocomial pathogens isolated in four Russian hospitals were studied. The most common and almost exclusive mechanism of aminoglycoside resistance was production of …

Sensitivity of 100 enterococcal strains isolated from faeces in premature born unit to 15 antimicrobial agents has been studied. 33 strains of Enterococcus faecalis, 61 strains of Enterococcus faecium, 4 strains of Enterococcus casseliflavus and 2 …

Today’s medicine takes advantage of the latest achievements in natural sciences and successfully employs new techniques to the diagnostics and treatment of diseases. Recently molecular-genetic approaches have been applied in the field of …

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 …