Abstract
Klebsiella pneumoniae is predominantly exists in the pus of the human wounds and it creates massive infections in the skin and causes serious health associated infections. Modern antibiotics are highly active in the treatment of wound infections. In this study was aimed to determine resistance of K. pneumoniae screened from wound specimens of patients. Sample was collected from the pus of the patients associated with secondary infection. Samples were serially diluted and the isolated bacterial strains were characterized by biochemical tests, colony morphology and Gram's staining methods. Resistance of K. pneumoniae was tested using antibiotics such as, Gentamycin, Ampicillin, Tetracycline, Cefurooxime, Oxacillin, Ofloxacin, Erythromycin, Nalidic acid, Cefepine, Piperacillin, Norfloxacin, Imipenem, Nitrofurantoin, Amikacin, Ciprofloxacin, Vancomycin, Meropeneum and Cefotaxime with Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. Among the 73 K. pneumoniae strains, four strains produced AmpC and ESBLs, 42 strains produced ESBLs and 7 bacterial strains synthesized only AmpC enzyme. Four stains produced ESBLs and showed multidrug resistance against various antibiotics. Most of the strains synthesized extracellular polysaccharides and mediated bi...Continue Reading
References
Mar 8, 2003·The Journal of Hospital Infection·C L Pessoa-SilvaJ L Gerberding
May 15, 2004·Environmental Microbiology·Carsten Struve, Karen Angeliki Krogfelt
Jun 8, 2004·Current Drug Targets. Infectious Disorders·Daniel GozalboMaría Luisa Gil
Feb 24, 2005·Antonie van Leeuwenhoek·Hans-Peter FiedlerGerhard Mihm
Jun 9, 2005·Current Opinion in Microbiology·Lixin ZhangJun Kuai
Jul 17, 2007·Clinical Microbiology Reviews·Anne Marie Queenan, Karen Bush
Jan 30, 2008·Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy·Dror MarchaimYehuda Carmeli
May 6, 2008·The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy·Elisabete MachadoLuísa Peixe
May 12, 2009·Journal of Medical Microbiology·Mark A FisherCathy A Petti
Sep 12, 2012·Chemosphere·Mariadhas Valan ArasuSavarimuthu Ignacimuthu
Mar 5, 2013·Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease·Longhua HuJingye Pan
Apr 10, 2013·Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine·S ValliA Reena
Feb 7, 2015·Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture·Soundharrajan IlavenilKi Choon Choi
Oct 31, 2015·Extremophiles : Life Under Extreme Conditions·Naif Abdullah Al-DhabiMounir M Salem-Bekhit
May 4, 2017·Molecular Nutrition & Food Research·Vesna MilanovićFrancesca Clementi
Apr 28, 2018·Nanomaterials·Naif Abdullah Al-DhabiMariadhas Valan Arasu
Jul 8, 2018·The Journal of Antibiotics·Xiao-Dong LiuYuan-Guang Li
Feb 14, 2019·Journal of Infection and Public Health·Naif Abdullah Al-DhabiKaruppiah Ponmurugan
May 3, 2019·Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences·Naif Abdullah Al-DhabiMariadhas Valan Arasu
Oct 6, 2019·Journal of Infection and Public Health·Naif Abdullah Al-DhabiKaruppiah Ponmurugan
Oct 27, 2020·Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences·Xiaojuan WuMaryam K Alshammari