Intestinal Colonization of Preterm Neonates with Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteria at Hospital Discharge.

Our aim was to investigate gut colonization with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) in the population of preterm neonates at discharge from a tertiary care center in Serbia. The study included 350 randomly selected neonates/infants discharged in the period April 2018-May 2019. CRE colonization was present in 88/350 (25.

Colonization with Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in the First Week of Life among Hospitalized Preterm Neonates in Serbia: Risk Factors and Outcomes.

The aim of this prospective cohort study was to determine the prevalence of gut colonization with multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, risk factors for colonization, infection risk, and outcomes among preterm neonates hospitalized at a tertiary-care center in Serbia. During the period from December 2017 to April 2018, 103 neonates were screened for rectal carriage at admission and on the seventh day of life. Characterization of MDR strains was done by conventional microbiology and molecular methods.

A Laboratory-Based Surveillance Study of Invasive , , and Diseases in a Serbian Pediatric Population-Implications for Vaccination.

The aim of this study was to present the epidemiology of invasive diseases caused by and in the pre-vaccine period, and in the post-vaccine period in a pediatric population from Serbia. Among the meningococci, serogroup B dominated (83%), followed by serogroup C (11.3%).

Clinical and molecular characteristics of OXA-72-producing Acinetobacter baumannii ST636 outbreak at a neonatal intensive care unit in Serbia.

Aim: To describe an Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak among preterm neonates in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Serbia.

Methods: A case-control study was conducted in the NICU at the Institute of Neonatology, Belgrade, Serbia. The case definition of A.

Tigecycline susceptibility of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from intensive care units in the western Balkans.

Tigecycline can be effective to treat infections of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) however, no interpretive criteria have been approved so far. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the proportion of CRAB isolates and to compare gradient test with a broth microdilution (BMD) method for tigecycline susceptibility testing of A. baumannii.