SUSCEPTIBILITIES TO 23 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND BETA-LACTAMASE PRODUCTION OF BLOOD CULTURE ISOLATES OF ACINETOBACTER SP IN HONG-KONG

Authors
LING JM NG TKC CHENG AF NORRBY SR
Citation
Jm. Ling et al., SUSCEPTIBILITIES TO 23 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND BETA-LACTAMASE PRODUCTION OF BLOOD CULTURE ISOLATES OF ACINETOBACTER SP IN HONG-KONG, Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases, 1996, pp. 21-25
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
00365548
Year of publication
1996
Supplement
101
Pages
21 - 25
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-5548(1996):<21:ST2AAA>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
The susceptibility of 140 Acinetobacter spp. isolated from blood cultu res of patients from the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, from 199 0 to 1994 to 23 antimicrobial agents was studied by an agar dilution m ethod, Resistance to most of the p-lactams, aminoglycosides and fluoro quinolones tested was high, being 11%-92%. Only amikacin, imipenem and meropenem were reliably active against this organism. Most of the iso lates produced cephalosporinases with very high pIs while 33% produced beta-lactamases with pI ranges of 5.2-8.7.