Lia Monica Junie
luliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Title: The value of the serum antibodies detection for the diagnosis of human hydatidosis
Biography
Biography: Lia Monica Junie
Abstract
Background: Staphylococcus aureus infections remain a serious medical problem and prompt initiation of appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy is important to improve the prognosis of these infections.
Methods: The strains were isolated from hospitalized patients in Universities Hospitals, Cluj Napoca, Romania, during 2016. Species identification was achieved by standard procedures and by the automated system Vitek 2 (Biomérieux). The susceptibility to antibiotics was performed using the disk diffusion method (Kirby-Bauer) according to the CLSI criteria and by the Vitek 2 System, for a total of 855 strains.
Results: From all isolated strains, 51 (5.9%) yielded Staphylococcus aureus. 34.3% of the S. aureus isolated strains were MRSA. 47.1% of the S. aureus tested strains were resistant to clindamycin. Moderately increased percentages of resistance were found by testing the strains to ciprofloxacin (20.3%). 16.7% of all the strains were resistant to gentamicin. Low levels of resistance were observed by testing the strains to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (3.9%). All the S. aureus strains were sensitive to glycopeptides and the second line anti-Staphylococcal antibiotics: linezolid, quinupristin/dalfopristin.
Conclusion: The majorities of the isolated strains were MSSA and exhibited higher percentage susceptibility, in contrast to those that had been isolated in 2015. Therefore, the policy that was adapted to avoid the spread of resistant strains was effective and recommended the need to introduce the antibioticotherapy control program in the Romanian hospitals.