{"id":16380,"date":"2021-01-05T01:25:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/\/2021\/01\/05\/evaluation-of-in-vitro-antibiotic-sensitivity-of-enterococci-isolated-from-urine-samples\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T01:25:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:25:01","slug":"evaluation-of-in-vitro-antibiotic-sensitivity-of-enterococci-isolated-from-urine-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/2021\/01\/05\/evaluation-of-in-vitro-antibiotic-sensitivity-of-enterococci-isolated-from-urine-samples\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluation of In Vitro Antibiotic Sensitivity of Enterococci Isolated from Urine Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Abstract<\/h1>\n<p> <strong>Objective<\/strong>: The aim of this study is evaluation of in vitro sensitivity and resistance rate of 293 enterococcal strains isolated from the urine samples of patients with a history suggestive of urinary tract infection in our hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Methods<\/strong>: Identification was performed by conventional methods. Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by disk diffusion method in accordance with Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Results<\/strong>: Resistance rates of enterococcal strains to penicillin, ampicillin, erythromycin, tetracycline, levofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin were found to be 85.4% (135\/158), 35.2% (92\/261), 69.6% (155\/223), 28.4% (35\/123), 28.6% (36\/126), 53.1% (110\/207), respectively. A high level resistance rate was found against aminoglycosides, namely 51.2% (139\/271) for gentamicin (120 mg) and 60.6% (89\/147) for streptomycin (300 mg).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Conclusions<\/strong>: Although no enterococcal strain with glycopeptide resistance was isolated, special attention should be paid to high-level aminoglycoside resistance in treating enterococcal infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Objective: The aim of this study is evaluation of in vitro sensitivity and resistance rate of 293 enterococcal strains isolated from the urine samples of patients with a history suggestive of urinary tract infection in our hospital.\u00a0 Methods: Identification was performed by conventional methods. Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by disk diffusion method in accordance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3431,4091,3254,3008],"class_list":["post-16380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-aminoglycoside-resistance","tag-antibiotic-susceptibility-test","tag-culture","tag-enterococcus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}