ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF BETA-LACTAMS AGAINST MULTIRESISTANT MICROORGANISMS FROM THE FAMILY ENTEROBACTERIACEAE, AND GENUS PSEUDOMONAS

Authors
NIEBLA A GONZALEZ I VALLIN C
Citation
A. Niebla et al., ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF BETA-LACTAMS AGAINST MULTIRESISTANT MICROORGANISMS FROM THE FAMILY ENTEROBACTERIACEAE, AND GENUS PSEUDOMONAS, Microbios, 80(325), 1994, pp. 245-250
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Microbios → ACNP
ISSN journal
00262633
Volume
80
Issue
325
Year of publication
1994
Pages
245 - 250
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-2633(1994)80:325<245:AAOBAM>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The antimicrobial activity of twenty p-lactams was determined against multiresistant micro-organisms from the Enterobacteriaceae family (450 ) and the genus Pseudomonas (90). The antimicrobial susceptibility was assessed by the disk diffusion method. The most effective antibiotics were cephalosporins of the second and third generation, and non-class ical beta-lactams (imipenem and moxalactam). A pronounced resistance w as found to carbenicillin, ampicillin, cephalotin and cefazolin. These resistance patterns corresponded to a high consumption of these antib iotics.