Group B Streptococcus Colonization, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Serotype Distribution among Saudi Pregnant Women.

Background: Group B Streptococcus (GBS) comprises the normal flora of the female urogenital tract and can be transferred to neonates during delivery, causing invasive diseases. This study was performed to investigate the colonization rate, antibiotic susceptibility, and serotype of GBS among Saudi pregnant women.

Materials And Methods: In this cross-sectional study, vagino-rectal swabs from 400 pregnant women were collected over a period of one year.

Enterobacterial infection in Saudi Arabia: First record of Klebsiella pneumoniae with triple carbapenemase genes resistance.

Introduction: Carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae are emerging as important pathogens worldwide with serious effects on patients' outcome. The study aimed to investigate the emergence of carbapenemases associated with enterobacterial infection in Western region of Saudi Arabia.

Methodology: Clinical isolates from suspected patients with enterobacterial infection were investigated over a one-year period from four tertiary care hospitals of Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Subclinical Hypothyroidism: Frequency, clinical presentations and treatment indications.

Objective: To determine the frequency, modes of clinical presentation and indications for replacement therapy in a cohort of patients with subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH).

Methods: This study was conducted at the Endocrine and Diabetes Unit of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre from September 2007 - October 2015. This was a retrospective chart analysis of prospectively collected data in whichthe medical records of 4448 patients who had presented to the Endocrine Clinic from 2007 to 2015 were reviewed.

Antimicrobial resistance patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in tertiary care hospitals of Makkah and Jeddah.

Background: The clinical significance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has greatly increased due to its ability to rapidly develop resistance to major groups of antibiotics.

Objectives: Our objective was to determine the pattern of antimicrobial resistance of P aeruginosa.

Design: Prospective, descriptive study.

Maternal colonization of group B streptococcus: prevalence, associated factors and antimicrobial resistance.

Background And Objectives: Group B streptococcus (GBS, Streptococcus agalactiae) can be transferred during delivery to neonates from mothers who are colonized with GBS in the genital tract. GBS can cause sepsis and meningitis in newborns. This study was conducted to determine GBS colonization rates among pregnant women and the antibiotic sensitivity patterns.

Clinical profile and surgical outcome for pulmonary aspergilloma: nine year retrospective observational study in a tertiary care hospital.

Background: The indications and the outcome of surgery for pulmonary aspergilloma remain highly controversial. This retrospective observational study was conducted to study the clinical profile, indications, post-operative complications and long term outcome of patients having pulmonary aspergilloma.

Methods: From January 2000 to October 2008, 52 patients underwent surgery for pulmonary aspergilloma at our tertiary care institute.

Helicobacter pylori infection in asymptomatic subjects in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To determine the seroprevalence of Helicobacter.pylori antibodies in asymptomatic healthy population.

Methods: Convenient sampling was done in asymptomatic healthy individuals accompanying the patients who had no previous history of epigastric pain.

Rotavirus infection in infants and young children in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of rotavirus in infants and young children in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

Methods: A population-based prevalence study was done in randomly selected infants and young children suffering from acute diarrhoea. Faecal specimens were collected from 479 patients.