Assessment of ß-lactams and Carbapenems Antimicrobials
Resistance in
Klebsiella Oxytoca Isolated from Patients with
Urinary Tract Infections in Najaf, Iraq
الباحث الأول:
Yahya Abdulla, N
الباحثين الآخرين:
Abduljabbar Jaloob Aljanaby, I2, Hayder Hasan, T3 *,
المجلة:
Archives of Razi Institute,
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
Antimicrobial resistance is becoming an arising global issue. Until recent years, more than 50% of
commercially available antibiotics were ß-lactam. Pathogenic bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics include
all ß-lactams except for cephamycin…
Antimicrobial resistance is becoming an arising global issue. Until recent years, more than 50% of
commercially available antibiotics were ß-lactam. Pathogenic bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics include
all ß-lactams except for cephamycin and carbapenems. This study aimed to evaluate some ß-lactams and
carbapenems antimicrobials resistance in Klebsiella oxytoca. In total, 177 urinary tract infection samples were
collected for the purposes of the study. Isolates were identified using morphological features and routine
biochemical testing. All isolates were tested for susceptibility to 11 antibiotics using the usual disc diffusion
method. The result showed that 155 (87.57%) and 20 (11.29%) out of 177 collected urine samples were gram-
negative bacterial isolates and gram-positive bacterial isolates, respectively. The findings also showed that there
were two samples (1.12 %) with no growth. The results proved no susceptibility to Ampicillin, Cloxacillin,
Ceftazidime, Penicillin, Piperacillin with a resistance rate of 100%.
Keywords: Antibacterial, B-lactam, ESBL, UT
