Linezolid and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci: A Therapeutic Problem.

Introduction: Enterococci are recognized as opportunistic pathogens, as well as commensals in both humans and animals. They are an important cause of nosocomial infections, difficult to treat, as the organism have intrinsic and acquired resistance to many antibiotics.

Aim: To isolate and identify clinically relevant up to species level from all the clinical samples processed in the microbiology laboratory and also to study their resistance pattern.

Comparison of biofilm formation in clinical isolates of Candida species in a tertiary care center, North India.

Background And Objectives: Biofilms are colonies of microbial cells encased in a self-produced organic polymeric matrix. The biofilm production is more important for nonalbicans Candida (NAC); as C. albicans possess many other mechanisms to establish infections.