Pattern of Pediatric Bacterial Infection and Antibiotic Resistance in New Delhi.

The retrospective study analyzed 1025 bacterial isolates from blood cultures collected from pediatric patients admitted in a tertiary-care hospital in New Delhi to find out drug sensitivity patterns. Staphylococcus was isolated from approximate 70% of the cultures, with 63.7% of them being methicillin-resistant.

In vitro antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Propionibacterium acnes isolated from patients with acne vulgaris.

Introduction: Propionibacterium acnes has been implicated in the development of acne vulgaris. Rampant use of topical and systemic antibiotics for acne vulgaris has led to resistance due to selective pressure. This study aimed to determine antibiotic resistance of P.

Cedecea lapagei in a patient with malignancy: Report of a rare case.

Cedecea lapagei is a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae and is an uncommon pathogen. There are very few reports of isolation of this organism from biological samples; mostly it is found to be a pathogen in elderly or otherwise medically compromised. We present a rare case of a patient with underlying malignancy of buccal mucosa, who developed an oral ulcer superinfected with C.

Antimicrobial resistance of bacterial isolates from respiratory secretions of ventilated patients in a multi-specialty hospital.

Context: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common nosocomial infection occurring in intensive care unit (ICU) settings. VAP occurs due to interplay of three factors - impaired host defense, access of large numbers of pathogenic bacteria to the lower respiratory tract and the virulence of the organism. Knowledge of colonizing microbial flora and their antibiogram in ventilated patients is of great importance in timely institution of empirical therapy, so that mortality and morbidity due to VAP can be reduced.

Incidence of multidrug resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from burn patients and environment of teaching institution.

Context: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important pathogen which causes nosocomial infections in immunocompromised patients, especially in hospitalized burn patients. In recent times, it has emerged as a widespread Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) pathogen which requires antibiotic susceptibility testing on a regular as well as a periodic basis.

Aim Of The Study: The present study was undertaken to determine the antibiogram of P.

Multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus hominis subsp. novobiosepticus causing septicemia in patients with malignancy.

A new subspecies of Staphylococcus hominis described by Kloos et al. in 1998 and named S. hominis subsp.

Bacterial profile and patterns of antimicrobial drug resistance in intra-abdominal infections: current experience in a teaching hospital.

Context: Bacterial isolates from intra-abdominal infections, in particular, peritonitis and their unpredictable antimicrobial resistance patterns, continue to be a matter of concern not only globally but regionally too.

Aim: An attempt in the present study was made to study the patterns of drug resistance in bacterial isolates, especially gram negative bacilli in intra-abdominal infections (IAI) in our hospital.

Materials And Methods: From 100 cases of peritonitis, identification of isolates was done as per recommended methods.