Antibiotic resistance of germs

ISBN-13: 9786204339429 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str.

Charles Kimuni Kamona; Michel Kabamba; Ruth Kamb

Opis

The first antibiotic resistance surveillance data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) show high levels of resistance to several bacterial infections in both high and low income countries. Urinary tract infections are more frequent and often more complicated in diabetics because several steps in the immune response are altered in them. At the end of cytobacteriological examinations of diabetic urine, 38 samples (76%) out of 50 were pathological. The germs isolated were distributed as follows: Escherichia coli was in the lead with 23 cases (60.5%); genus Klebsiella (K. ozaenae, K. oxytoca and K. pneumoniae) with 11 cases (29%); finally, the genera Salmonella and Enterococcus each occupied 2 cases (5.3%).Generally speaking, antibiotic resistance evolves on a case-by-case basis depending on the germ involved and the antibiotic used. This book is intended for all those who work in the medical sciences.

O autorze

Charles Kimuni, Medical Biologist of the Institut Supérieur des Techniques Médicales de Lubumbashi (ISTM/L'SHI). Teaching assistant at ISTM/L'SHI, Department of Laboratory.