Results of the national surveillance of antimicrobial resistance of Enterobacteriaceae and Gram negative bacilli in health care-associated infections in Colombia, 2012-2014.

Introduction: The Colombian National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections was set up to meet this problem in the third quarter of 2012.

Objective: To describe resistance profiles and laboratory-based surveillance based on the information collected by the System.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective and descriptive study of the information notified to the Colombian Public Health Surveillance System (Sivigila), and in the Whonet databases covering the period from July 2012 to December 2014 provided by the primary data-generating units in the country, as well as laboratory surveillance results from 1,642 phenotypic and genotypic tests on carbapenemase isolates (927 from Enterobacteriaceae, 614 from Pseudomonas spp.

Whole-Genome Sequence of a Colombian Strain, a Coproducer of OXA-72 and OXA-255-Like Carbapenemases.

Colombian strain ST920 was isolated from the sputum of a 68-year-old male patient. This isolate possessed OXA-72 and OXA-255-like genes. The assembled genome contained 4,104,098 pb and 38.

[Characterization of isolates of carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa from seven Colombian provinces].

Introduction: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes multiple infections in hospitalized patients. This microorganism has developed resistance to several antimicrobial agents, including carbapenems, which are considered to be the last therapeutic option against these infections. Carbapenem resistance of P.

The molecular diagnosis of pelvic tuberculosis: a case report.

Tuberculosis is a re-emerging infectious disease. A retrospective analysis was made of the clinical history of a 48-year-old woman in April 2009; she was a secretary at a third-level hospital living in an urban area. Pelvic tubercular infection was suggested as a possible diagnosis; spoligotyping molecular methodology was used on a peritoneal secretion sample to confirm such diagnosis and confirmed the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (octal code 777777777760771, SIT 53, Family T1).