Multi-drug-resistant (MDR)
Resistance trends of Acinetobacter spp. in Latin America and characterization of international dissemination of multi-drug resistant strains: five-year report of the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program
... Major hospital outbreaks related to multi-drug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter spp. have been re- cently described in several countries, 5—7 making surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility an im- ...
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Role of wild birds as carriers of multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli and Escherichia vulneris
... of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria in environments pose a risk to hu- man and animal ...found resistant to Oxacillin while all isolates recovered from migrating birds demonstrated ...
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Detection of multi drug resistant bacteria in major hospitals in Kano, North-West, Nigeria
... of multi-drug resistant bacteria pathogens which may be responsible for treatment failure and/or outbreaks of in- fections caused by resistant ...totally resistant isolates were found ...
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Ambulatory multi-drug resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in a cohort of HIV-infected patients in a slum setting in Mumbai, India.
... USA). Drug susceptibility testing (DST) was performed on all culture positive isolates against four first-line TB drugs: isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol and streptomycin and four second-line drugs (kanamycin, ...
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Multi drug resistant tuberculosis in Mosango, a rural area in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
... The two index cases mentioned above could not be included in this investigation: one had died before the arrival of the team, and no clinical specimens were available for the other case. The Mosango district TB register ...
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Bringing the biorefinery concept to the health-care facilities: use of industrial by-products against multi-drug resistant bacteria
... Gentamicin, a bactericidal antibiotic from the aminoglycosides class, has been used over the past 20 years, being recommended for short-term and prolonged therapy, in most cases for serious Gram-negative infections. ...
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Disease control implications of India's changing multi-drug resistant tuberculosis epidemic.
... via drug sensitivity testing. Depending on the drug sensitivity technology being considered, test results return either the same month or after six months to triage MDR-infected patients to DOTS-Plus ...
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UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA THE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY OF SYNTHETIC COMPOUNDS AND IONS AGAINST TRANSPORTERS OF MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA
... The expression of homologs such as AcrD can become increased through regulatory responses or mutations (68) in the presence of aminoglycosides which they are capable of extruding (a function that could not be carried out ...
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Altered antibiotic transport in OmpC mutants isolated from a series of clinical strains of multi-drug resistant E. coli.
... Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, particularly Gram negative species, present significant health care challenges. The permeation of antibiotics through the outer membrane is largely effected by the porin superfamily, ...
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Rational design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of heterocyclic quinolones targeting the respiratory chain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... ABSTRACT: A high-throughput screen (HTS) was undertaken against the respiratory chain dehydrogenase component, NADH:menaquinone oxidoreductase (Ndh) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The 11000 compounds were selected ...
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Case Report and Literature Review
... of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR- TB), particularly in the 1990s, has become an important health problem and threatens TB control worldwide ...were multi-drug resistant ...
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ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF THE ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT DICLOFENAC SODIUM, AND ITS SYNERGISM WITH STREPTOMYCIN
... of multi-drug resistance among Mycobacterium tuberculosis in particular and mycobacteria in general needs surveillance and ...cure multi- drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) with the ...
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Molecular epidemiology, drug susceptibility and economic aspects of tuberculosis in Mubende district, Uganda.
... The global TB outlook is grim due to the development of multi drug resistant strains (MDR-TB) which do not respond to the first line TB therapy (rifampicin and isoniazid) [11,12]. MDR-TB patients ...
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Molecular characterisation of drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum from Thailand
... this drug has been reduced, it has not yet become a serious problem, since the combination with tetracycline increas- es its cure ...of multi-drug resistant Falci- parum malaria, which we ...
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Multi drug resistance in strong biofilm forming clinical isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis
... were multi drug resistant and high amount of them were resistant to all b-lactam antibiotics (P, OX, AMC) used in this study (Table ...these multi drug resistant strains ...
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Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant and Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis within Households: A Prospective Cohort Study.
... of multi-drug resistant and drug- susceptible ...that drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains are less fit than drug-susceptible strains, but these studies do not account ...
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Enhanced transmission of drug-resistant parasites to mosquitoes following drug treatment in rodent malaria.
... of drug resistant Plasmodium parasites is a major challenge to effective malaria ...and resistant parasites within infections are a major determinant of the rate at which parasite evolution ...
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Genome Analysis of the First Extensively Drug-Resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Malaysia Provides Insights into the Genetic Basis of Its Biology and Drug Resistance.
... acquires drug resistance through the sequen- tial acquisition and accumulation of resistance mutations in the chromosome during sub-opti- mal drug treatment instead of horizontal gene transfer ...well-known ...
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Candida auris, an agent of hospital-associated outbreaks : which challenging issues do we need to have in mind?
... Abstract: The emergence of Candida auris is considered as one of the most serious problems associated with nosocomial transmission and with infection control practices in hospital environment. This multidrug ...
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Drug-resistant gonorrhea infections in Canada. Plasma-mediated resistance
... gonorrhoeae may be a source of treatment failure with penicillin and other antimicrobials (e.g., tetracycline) and should be treated with antimicrobial agents used again[r] ...
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