Iftekhar Ahmed, Md. Bodiuzzaman Rabbi, Sakina Sultana
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a worldwide problem and Bangladesh is a major contributor to this owing to its poor healthcare standards, along with the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. This systematic review was conducted to summarize the present scenario of ABR in Bangladesh, to ident...
Md. Abdus Salam, Md. Yusuf Al-Amin, Jogendra Singh Pawar, Naseem Akhter et al.
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is an essential task for selecting appropriate antimicrobial agents to treat infectious diseases. Constant evolution has been observed in methods used in the diagnostic microbiology laboratories. Disc diffusion or broth microdilution are classical and conventiona...
Eike Steinig, Sebastián Duchêne, D. Ashley Robinson, Stefan Monecke et al.
The Bengal Bay clone (ST772) is a community-associated and multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage first isolated from Bangladesh and India in 2004. In this study, we showed that the Bengal Bay clone emerged from a virulent progenitor circulating on the Indian subcontinent. Its subsequent ...
Maureen T. McCann, Brendan Gilmore, Sean P. Gorman
Abstract Staphylococcus epidermidis, the most frequently isolated coagulase-negative staphylococcus, is the leading cause of infection related to implanted medical devices (IMDs). This is directly related to its capability to establish multilayered, highly structured biofilms on artificial surfaces....
Rashedul Hasan, Mrityunjoy Acharjee, Rashed Noor
OBJECTIVES: (VRSA)] collected from burn patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: which were further tested against 20 commercially available antibiotics to determine antibiotic susceptibility patterns. RESULTS: were MRSA, of which 11 were resistant to vancomycin when employing the disc diffusion method. How...
Mueena Jahan, Marzia Rahman, Md. Shafiullah Parvej, Shah Chowdhury et al.
The study was intended for identification and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from raw cow milk. A total of 47 milk samples were collected from Sheshmore, Shutiakhali and Bangladesh Agricultural University Dairy Farm, Mymensingh. Using bacteriological, biochemical and PCR-based id...
Sadia Afroz, Nobumichi Kobayashi, Shigeo Nagashima, Md. Mahbub Alam et al.
To assess the spread and genetic characteristics of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene-carrying Staphylococcus aureus in Bangladesh, we investigated 59 strains (49 isolates from clinical specimens and 10 isolates colonized in the nasal cavities of medical staff), including 26 methicillin-resista...
Mainul Haque, Nor Azlina A. Rahman, Judy McKimm, Golam Mohammad Kibria et al.
Background: Self-medication of drugs to alleviate symptoms is a common global behavior, helping relieve burdens on health services, but many drugs eg, antibiotics are prescription-only. Self-medication of antibiotics (SMA) is an irrational use of drugs, contributing to microbial resistance increasin...
Manuel Kussmann, Matthias Karer, Markus Obermueller, Katy Schmidt et al.
In the present study, we demonstrated the emergence of dalbavancin non-susceptible and teicoplanin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants which were selected in vivo through long-term treatment with dalbavancin. A 36-year-old man presented with a cardiac device-related S. aureus endoc...
Mohitosh Biswas, Debendra Roy, Afsana Tajmim, Sheikh Shahriar Rajib et al.
BACKGROUND: Antibiotics prescribing by physicians have gained due importance across the globe, mainly because of an increase in antibiotic usage, prevalence of infections and drug resistances. The present study is aimed to evaluate the physicians prescribing pattern of antibiotics, their usages by o...
Mohammad Aminul Islam, Sahana Parveen, Mahdia Rahman, M. I. Huq et al.
Infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are gradually increasing in the community. In this study, we investigated a total of 162 food samples including 112 ready-to-eat (RTE) foods and 40 processed raw meat and fish samples collected from retail vendors in Dhaka, Bangladesh ...
Bui Thi Mai Huong, Zahid Hayat Mahmud, Sucharit Basu Neogi, Afework Kassu et al.
Md. Aminul Islam, Md. Mahbub Alam, ME Choudhury, Nobumichi Kobayashi et al.
The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) represents the concentration of antimicrobial at which there is complete inhibition of growth of organism. In order to determine the MIC of cloxacillin, 10 MRSA were previously detected from 40 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus by polymerase chain ...
Amal Al-Maani, Hema Paul, Azza Al-Rashdi, Adil Al Wahaibi et al.
Candida auris has emerged in the past decade as a multi-drug resistant public health threat causing health care outbreaks. Here we report epidemiological, clinical, and microbiological investigations of a C. auris outbreak in a regional Omani hospital between April 2018 and April 2019. The outbreak ...
Baizid Khoorshid Riaz, Shahjada Selim, Md. Nazmul Karim, Kamrun Nahar Chowdhury et al.
Not all cases of rheumatic fever (RF) end up as rheumatic heart disease (RHD). The fact raises the possibility of existence of a subgroup with characteristics that prevent RF patients from developing the RHD. The present study aimed at exploring the risk factors among patients with RHD. The study as...