{"id":16392,"date":"2021-01-05T01:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/\/2021\/01\/05\/antimicrobial-resistance-of-gram-negative-bacteria-isolated-from-lower-respiratory-tract-specimens-of-hospitalized-patients\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T01:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:25:02","slug":"antimicrobial-resistance-of-gram-negative-bacteria-isolated-from-lower-respiratory-tract-specimens-of-hospitalized-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/2021\/01\/05\/antimicrobial-resistance-of-gram-negative-bacteria-isolated-from-lower-respiratory-tract-specimens-of-hospitalized-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimicrobial Resistance of Gram-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Lower Respiratory Tract Specimens of Hospitalized Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Abstract<\/h1>\n<p> <strong>Objective<\/strong>: In this study, we aimed to determine the distribution of the genera of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from lower respiratory tracts of patients treated as in-patients and to calculate the antibiotic resistance rates to guide empirical antibiotic therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Methods<\/strong>: Samples taken from the lower respiratory tract and sent to the Bacteriology Laboratory at the Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine from January 2008 to December 2010 were retrospectively analyzed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Results<\/strong>: A total of 853 Gram-negative bacteria were isolated from specimens of in-patients. The rates of carbapenem (85%) and multidrug resistance (47%) among A. baumannii were higher than those observed for P. aeruginosa (30% and 19.2%). Carbapenem resistance was not found among the bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, while the highest rates of resistance were detected for ciprofloxacin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Conclusions<\/strong>: Implementation of effective treatment protocols based on sensitivity test results can be useful in preventing nosocomial lower respiratory infections caused by resistant Gram-negative bacteria.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Objective: In this study, we aimed to determine the distribution of the genera of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from lower respiratory tracts of patients treated as in-patients and to calculate the antibiotic resistance rates to guide empirical antibiotic therapy.\u00a0 Methods: Samples taken from the lower respiratory tract and sent to the Bacteriology Laboratory at the [&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":[3469,2970,4088],"class_list":["post-16392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-drug-resistance","tag-gramnegative-bacteria","tag-lower-respiratory-tract-specimens"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392","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=16392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}