Antimicrobial Resistance Profile of Enterobacter cloacae Isolated from the First Bethune Hospital

Author

Xu, Jiancheng ; Zhang, Man ; Zhao, Bin ; Zhou, Qi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Clinical Lab., Jilin Univ., Changchun, China

fYear

2011

fDate

30-31 July 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Enterobacter cloacae is significant causes of nosocomial infections. The present study aimed to evaluate the antibiotic resistance profiles of Enterobacter cloacae isolated from the First Bethune Hospital. Disk diffusion method was used to study the antimicrobial resistance. The data were analyzed by WHONET 5 software according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). The majority of 683 strains of Enterobacter cloacae were collected from sputum (410, 60.0%), secretions and pus (105, 15.4%), urine (69, 10.1%). All the Enterobacter cloacae isolates were sensitive to imipenem and meropenem. Enterobacter cloacae strains were frequently resistant to multiple antibiotics. The results suggest that surveillance of antimicrobial resistance among Enterobacter cloacae is necessary.

Keywords

antibacterial activity; biodiffusion; cellular biophysics; drugs; medical computing; microorganisms; Enterobacter cloacae; WHONET 5 software; antibiotics; antimicrobial resistance profile; disk diffusion method; imipenem; meropenem; nosocomial infections; pus; secretions; sputum; urine; Antibiotics; Hospitals; Immune system; Laboratories; Production; Strain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems Engineering (CASE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0859-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCASE.2011.5997674

Filename

5997674