| impact of aminoglycoside cycling in six tertiary intensive care units: prospective longitudinal interventional study. | to determine the effect of aminoglycoside cycling in six tertiary intensive care units (icu) on the rates of sepsis, aminoglycoside resistance patterns, antibiotic consumption, and costs. | 2008 | 18461676 |
| antimicrobial susceptibility and beta-lactamase production of selected gram-negative bacilli from two croatian hospitals: mystic study results. | the meropenem yearly susceptibility test information collection (mystic) programme is a global, longitudinal resistance surveillance network that monitors the activity of meropenem and compares its activity with other broadspectrum antimicrobial agents. we now report the antimicrobial efficacy of meropenem compared to other broad-spectrum agents within the selective gram-negative pathogen groups from two croatian hospitals investigated between 2002-2007. a total of 1510 gram-negative pathogens w ... | 2010 | 20566417 |
| emergence of oxacillinases in environmental carbapenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii associated with clinical isolates. | six carbapenem-resistant isolates of acinetobacter baumannii were recovered from untreated and treated municipal wastewater of the capital city of zagreb, croatia. molecular identification of environmental isolates of a. baumannii was performed by amplification, sequencing, and phylogenetic analyses of rpob gene. the presence of blaoxa genes encoding oxa-type carbapenemases (oxa-51-like, oxa-23, and oxa-40-like) was confirmed by multiplex pcr and sequencing. phylogenetic analyses corroborated th ... | 2016 | 27705609 |
| nursing home as a reservoir of carbapenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii. | acinetobacter baumannii is an increasingly common pathogen in healthcare settings globally. it is frequently resistant to multiple antimicrobial agents and there are recent reports on strains that are pandrug resistant. the aim of the study was to characterize the mechanisms of carbapenem resistance of a. baumannii strains from a nursing home in zagreb and to genotype the strains. antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by the broth microdilution method according to the clinical and l ... | 2015 | 25599131 |
| carbapenem-resistant isolates of acinetobacter baumannii in a municipal wastewater treatment plant, croatia, 2014. | acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging hospital pathogen. whereas a. baumannii isolated from patients or hospitals has been reported, there are few data regarding propagation of viable a. baumannii in the natural environment. this study investigates the occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility of viable a. baumannii in municipal wastewater and its persistence through the wastewater treatment process. a total of 21 a. baumannii isolates were recovered at a secondary type of municipal wastewate ... | 2016 | 27105318 |
| pan drug-resistant environmental isolate of acinetobacter baumannii from croatia. | acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging nosocomial pathogen with also emerging resistance to different antibiotics. multidrug and pan drug-resistant clinical isolates were reported worldwide. here we report the first evidence of pan drug-resistant environmental isolate of a. baumannii. the isolate was recovered from the effluent of secondary treated municipal wastewater of the city of zagreb, croatia. the isolate was resistant to penicillins/β-lactamase inhibitors, carbapenems, fluoroquinolones, ... | 2016 | 27792476 |
| clonal spread of carbapenem-resistant oxa-72-positive acinetobacter baumannii in a croatian university hospital. | background: from july to october 2008, 34 acinetobacter baumannii isolates were involved in an outbreak at the clinical hospital center, zagreb. the aim of this study was to characterize the mechanisms of carbapenem resistance in our a. baumannii isolates and determine their epidemiology. methods: antibiotic susceptibilities were determined by broth microdilution. pcr was used to detect the presence of carbapenemases. genotyping of the isolates was performed by random amplification of polymorphi ... | 2011 | 21798787 |