Publications

susceptibility profile of enterococcus faecalis isolated at the lagos university teaching hospital, nigeria.	enterococcus faecalis is the most common of the enterococcus genus causing infection, particularly urinary tract infections, worldwide. it is also a common cause of nosocomial infections and resistance to various antibiotics is on the increase worldwide. thirty-five strains of e. faecalis isolated from various clinical specimens (blood, wound swabs endocervical swabs but mostly urine) were screened for high-level aminoglycoside resistance. their susceptibility nine antibiotics (ampicillin, genta ...	2002	12501265
aetiology of catheter-associated bacteriuria in lagos university teaching hospital.	a prospective study to determine the causative agents of catheter-related bacteriuria was carried out on 99 patients with median age of 55 years, on admission in the oncology, paediatric surgery and obstetric and gynaecology wards of the lagos university teaching hospital. there was significant bacteriuria in seventy-one (72%) of the 99 urine samples. all catheter urine samples were contaminated by day 5 gram-negative bacilli were predominant (89.3%) of which pseudomonas aeruginosa (26.2%) was t ...	2005	15997255