The susceptibilities of 109 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to penicillin G, tetracycline, amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cefotetan, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, and fleroxacin were determined. The activities of cefmetazole, cefuroxime, cefixime, and ofloxacin were also determined against 62 of these strains. Strains represented penicillin-susceptible (Pen(s)) N. gonorrhoeae; penicillinase-producing N. gonorrhoeae (PPNG) possessing 2.9-, 3.05-, 3.2-, or 4.4-MDa beta-lactamase plasmids; strains with high-level, plasmid-mediated tetracycline resistance (TRNG); strains with plasmid-mediated resistance to penicillin and tetracycline; and strains with chromosomally mediated resistance to penicillin and tetracycline (CMRNG). Ceftriaxone, cefixime, and ciprofloxacin were the most active agents tested against all strains. Pen(s), TRNG, and PPNG strains possessing a 3.2-MDa beta-lactamase plasmid were more susceptible to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, extended- and broad-spectrum cephalosporins, and quinolones than were either PPNG strains possessing a 2.9-, a 3.05-, or a 4.4-MDa beta-lactamase plasmid or CMRNG strains.
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December 2024
College of Food Science and Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
Numerous types of contemporary antibiotic treatment regimens have become ineffective with the increasing incidence of drug tolerance. As a result, it is pertinent to seek novel and innovative solutions such as antibacterial nanomaterials (NMs) for the prohibition and treatment of hazardous microbial infections. Unlike traditional antibiotics (e.
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November 2024
Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, Pretoria 0028, South Africa.
In the absence of data on the reporting of resistance to antibiotics, we sought to determine which clonal complexes (CCs)/sequence types (STs) circulate in the food chain in Kosovo and to determine their antibiogram profiles to a panel of 18 antibiotics. From a total of 114 isolates, 21 different typical STs were identified by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Each isolate derived from the food categories was subjected to tests to verify its susceptibility to the selected antibiotics according to the designed Sensititre GPN3F panel.
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December 2024
Assay Division II, National Veterinary Assay Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tokyo 185-8511, Japan.
Evaluating antimicrobial use (AMU) is essential in the investigation and implementation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prevention measures. Here, we examined AMU using an index (mg/kg biomass) that considers the antimicrobial sales volume and livestock biomass in Japan from 2011 to 2022. Antimicrobial sales volumes were obtained from JVARM data, and biomass data were obtained from reliable statistics.
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January 2025
Enteric Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Disease Laboratory, Royal Centre for Disease Control, Thimphu, Bhutan.
Objectives: This study aimed to identify the aetiological spectrum, seasonal distribution and antimicrobial resistance patterns of diarrhoeal diseases in Bhutan.
Study Design And Setting: The study used a cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of secondary data gathered through a passive, hospital-based sentinel surveillance for diarrhoeal disease across 12 hospitals, representing Bhutan's demographically diverse regions.
Participants: A total of 3429 participants' data of all age groups who presented with diarrhoea at sentinel hospitals between 1 January 1 2016 and 31 December 2022 were analysed.
Infect Drug Resist
December 2024
Subdean Office, Anqing First People's Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anqing City, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China.
Purpose: To evaluate the clinical characteristics, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) phenotypes and genotypes, and homology features of carbapenem-resistant (CRAB) in intensive care unit (ICU) and to provide basis for effectively prevention, control and treatment of nosocomial infections caused by CRAB.
Methods: A total of 39 CRAB strains isolated from hospitalized patients in the ICU and neurosurgical ICU (NICU) between 2020 and 2023 were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing and whole-genome sequencing (WGS). Virulence factor genes (VFGs), antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), multilocus sequencing typing (MLST), complete genome multilocus sequencing typing (cgMLST), average nucleotide identity (ANI), and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analyses were performed using WGS.
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