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Volume 24, Issue 2

Original Article

Evaluation of In Vitro Antibiotic Sensitivity of Enterococci Isolated from Urine Samples

Özden Kalaycı
Affiliations
  • İzmir Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı, İzmir, Türkiye
,
Süreyya Gül Yurtsever
Affiliations
  • İzmir Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı, İzmir, Türkiye
,
Serdar Güngör
Affiliations
  • İzmir Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı, İzmir, Türkiye
,
Berrin Uzun
Affiliations
  • İzmir Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı, İzmir, Türkiye
,
Nükhet Kurultay
Affiliations
  • İzmir Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı, İzmir, Türkiye
  • aminoglycoside resistance
  • antibiotic susceptibility test
  • culture
  • Enterococcus

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study is evaluation of in vitro sensitivity and resistance rate of 293 enterococcal strains isolated from the urine samples of patients with a history suggestive of urinary tract infection in our hospital. 

Methods: Identification was performed by conventional methods. Antimicrobial susceptibility was determined by disk diffusion method in accordance with Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). 

Results: Resistance rates of enterococcal strains to penicillin, ampicillin, erythromycin, tetracycline, levofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin were found to be 85.4% (135/158), 35.2% (92/261), 69.6% (155/223), 28.4% (35/123), 28.6% (36/126), 53.1% (110/207), respectively. A high level resistance rate was found against aminoglycosides, namely 51.2% (139/271) for gentamicin (120 mg) and 60.6% (89/147) for streptomycin (300 mg). 

Conclusions: Although no enterococcal strain with glycopeptide resistance was isolated, special attention should be paid to high-level aminoglycoside resistance in treating enterococcal infections.

  • 105-107
  • 10.5152/kd.2011.25
  • July 23, 2019
  • 2012
  • 750
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