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Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Resistance to antibiotics at medical centres in different parts of the world
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Volume 18, Year 1986
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The diameters of the zones of inhibition of consecutive clinical isolates around antibiotic susceptibility test discs at medical centres in different parts of the world were computer filed and analysed by a series of programs that evaluate test quality and compare results. Percentages of isolates resistant to ampicillin at 18 centres ranged from 16 to 73 for Escherichia coli and from 3 to 56 for Proteus mirabilis. Percentages resistant to chloramphenicol ranged from 2 to 48 for E. coli, from 5 to 52 for Klebsiella pneumoniae, and from 8 to 67 for Serratia marcescens. Gentamicin resistance did not exceed 4% at any of 18 centres and was less than 1 at 14 of them for isolates of E. coli, while K. pneumoniae showed less than 2% resistance at six centres but averaged 22% at another eight. Multi-resistant isolates were ten-fold more frequent at eight centres than at the remaining six. Too few centres were sampled to characterize individual countries except in the United States where resistance seemed generally less prevalent. © 1986 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Authors & Co-Authors
O'Brien, Thomas F.
United States, Boston
Brigham and Women's Hospital
O'Brien, T. F.
United States, Boston
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kent, Ralph L.
United States, Boston
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Chao, Lee
United States, Boston
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Medeiros, Antone A.
United States, Providence
Miriam Hospital
Pasculle, A. William
United States, Pittsburgh
Upmc Presbyterian
Surgalla, Michael J.
United States, Buffalo
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Norton, Richard A.
United States, Silver Spring
Food and Drug Administration
Williams, J. D.
United Kingdom, London
The Royal London Hospital
Courtieu, Andre Louis
France, Nantes
Cent. Hosp. Reg.
Acar, Jacqu̧es F.
France, Paris
Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-joseph
Altmann, G.
Israel, Tel Hashomer Tel Aviv
Chaim Sheba Medical Center Israel
Jacobs, Michael R.
South Africa, Johannesburg
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Block, Colin S.
South Africa, Johannesburg
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital
Guzmán, Manuel
Venezuela, Caracas
Centro Medico Docente la Trinidad
Bell, S.
Australia, Sydney
Prince of Wales Hospital
Krcmery, V.
Czech Republic, Bratislava
Vyskumny Ustav Hygieny
Damaso, D.
Spain, Majadahonda
Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda
Lynch, B.
Chile, Santiago
Universidad de Chile
Santos, P. S.
Philippines, Manila
University of Santo Tomas, Manila
Midveldt, T.
Norway, Oslo
Universitetet I Oslo
Yourassowsky, E.
Belgium, Brussels
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann, Brussels
Statistics
Citations: 22
Authors: 22
Affiliations: 19
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/jac/18.Supplement_C.243
ISSN:
03057453
e-ISSN:
14602091
Research Areas
Cancer