Antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria isolated from cerebrospinal fluids in an Iranian referral pediatric center, 1998-2008.

Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of bacterial meningitis provide essential information regarding selection of antibiotic therapy for patients with bacterial meningitis. This study presents data on causes of bacterial meningitis and their susceptibility pattern among children at Children's Medical Center (CMC), a referral tertiary care center in Iran. In this comprehensive retrospective study we reviewed microbiology records of all inpatients suspected to bacterial meningitis, during 1998-2008 of period.

Evaluation of procalcitonin and neopterin level in serum of patients with acute bacterial infection.

Background: Fever as a common presenting complaint in pediatric patients can be due to various causes. Differentiating bacterial infection from other causes is important because the prompt use of antibiotics is critical in bacterial infection. Traditional markers of infection such as BT and WBC count may be unspecific and culture may be late or absent.

Frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella species isolated in Children Medical Center Hospital, Tehran, Iran, 2001-2006.

Appropriate antimicrobial treatment of shigellosis depends on identifying its changing resistance pattern over time. We evaluated 15,255 stool culture submitted from July 2001 to June 2006 to the Laboratory of Children Medical Center Hospital. Specimen culture, bacterial identification, and disk diffusion susceptibility testing were performed according to National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards guidelines.

Frequency of isolation and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria isolated from bloodstream infections at Children's Medical Center, Tehran, Iran, 1996-2000.

Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of major bloodstream pathogens from Iran provide essential information regarding the selection of antibiotic therapy for patients with bloodstream infections (BSIs) living in Iran. Unfortunately, data regarding the isolation frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of endemic BSI pathogens are scarce in Iran. To shed some light on the susceptibility patterns of BSI pathogens endemic to Tehran, Iran, we investigated the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of 2248 bloodstream isolates from patients in Children's Medical Center (CMC) Hospital in Tehran between January 1996 and December 2000.