Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2018; 20(3):244-248
Objective. To study level and structure of microbial colonization in cancer patients before admission to a surgery department using molecular methods.
Materials and Methods. The presence of DNA of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, methicillinresistant coagulase-negative staphylococci, Candida albicans/C. glabrata/C. krusei, Acinetobacter baumannii in the clinical specimens and the presence of antimicrobial resistance genes in cultures were detected by multiplex real-time PCR. A total of 741 clinical samples and 313 cultures were studied.