Post Syrian war impact on susceptibility rates and trends in molecular characterization of Enterobacteriaceae.

Objective: Describe susceptibility and molecular profiles among Enterobacteriaceae pathogens and to explore if war, among other factors, can affect antimicrobial resistance.

Methods: Clinical isolates from the Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends associated with urinary tract and intra-abdominal infections between 2011 and 2015 were identified in Lebanon and Jordan. Susceptibility testing and molecular characterization were performed as per standard methods.

Countrywide spread of OXA-48 carbapenemase in Lebanon: surveillance and genetic characterization of carbapenem-non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae in 10 hospitals over a one-year period.

Objectives: To detect, characterize, and assess the genetic clonality of carbapenem-non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae in 10 Lebanese hospitals in 2012.

Methods: Selected Enterobacteriaceae isolates with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems were subject to phenotypic study including antibiotic susceptibility, cloxacillin effect, modified Hodge test, and activity of efflux pump inhibitor. Carbapenemase genes were detected using PCR; clonal relatedness was studied by pulsed field gel electrophoresis.

[Evolution of the antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae from 1997 to 2004 at Hôtel-Dieu de France, a university hospital in Lebanon].

Various rates of Streptococcus pneumoniae with diminished susceptibility to Penicillin G (PNSP) are reported worldwide, while resistance to cefotaxime and ceftriaxone is actually increasing among S. pneumoniae. The aim of this survey was to determine the evolution of the susceptibility and resistance of S.