Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2020; 22(2):143-148
Objective. To evaluate resistance rates to carbapenems and III–IV generation cephalosporins among gramnegative bacteria, including production of carbapenemases and extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL).
Materials and Methods. A total of 460 gram-negative bacteria isolated from hospitalized patients aged 1 to 85 years from 8 medical institutions of Rostov-on-Don and the region from April 2018 to December 2019 were tested by conventional microbiological methods. The most common acquired carbapenemases genes were determined by real-time PCR using commercial kits (Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Russia).