RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Antimicrobial susceptibility testing and patterns of resistance at a tertiary care center
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 569
OP 576
VO 22
IS 7
A1 Javed Akhter
A1 Mohammed O. Qutub
A1 Syed M. Qadri
YR 2001
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/22/7/569.abstract
AB Clinical microbiology laboratories are faced with the challenge of accurately detecting emerging antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens. In recent years, vancomycin resistant enterococci have emerged, as have penicillin resistant pneumococci and more recently, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin. In order to detect these emerging resistant pathogens it is essential that antimicrobial susceptibility be carried out by laboratories as an integral part of therapeutic strategies. In this review, we discuss patterns of susceptibility of different antimicrobials as experienced at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, a tertiary care center in Riyadh.