Background: Antibiotic resistance in Enterobacteriaceae is a major global threat, particularly in hospitalized children, where it leads to difficult-to-treat infections and prolonged hospital stays. The gastrointestinal tract serves as a key reservoir for transmission, and limite...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2026/v36i41736
Aïssatou Ahmet NIANG, Amadou DIOP, Baïdy DIEYE, Fatoumata DIALLO, Habibou SARR, Madiagne DER, Niokhor Ngobe SENE, Papa Lat Coumba SECK, Pape Daouda CISSE, Aminata Jeanette BADJI, Sekhou Cisse, Roughyatou KA, Mouhamadou Lamine DIA & Seynabou LO·Microbiology Research Journal International·2025
Introduction: Urinary tract infections caused by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae) are a public health problem in the world. This study aims to determine the prevalence and resistance profiles of ESBL-producing Enteroba...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2025/v35i121673
Aims: The study aimed to report the occurrence of ESBL-Escherichia coli from pigeons. Study Design and Place and Duration of Study: A total of 16 Samples were collected including eight from residential and eight from commercial pigeon houses from February to July 2024 in Lomé's G...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2025/v35i31551
Background: Multi-resistant bacteria have emerged as a global threat to human health. In Africa, there are few data on AMR. The objective of this study was to determine antibiotic resistance profile of enterobacteria strains and prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria isolated...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2023/v33i101406
Aims: Flies are known to spread antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB), especially from farms to cities; but they may also play a role in the intra-urban dispersion of ARB, in conjunction with poor sanitary conditions. Here, we characterized gram-negative ARB isolated from urban fli...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2021/v31i630328
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the antibiogram of biofilm producing bacteria isolated from urine of patients in three hospitals in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Study Design: The study employs statistical analysis of the data and interpretation Place and Duration of S...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2021/v31i530316
I. K. Kouadio, N. Guessennd, A. Dadié, A. Konaté, V. Gbonon, B. Tiékoura, S. Kpoda, M. B. Ouattara, F. Konan, A. Ajayi, M. Djè & M. Dosso·Microbiology Research Journal International·2017
Aims: The study was to evaluate the genetic potential of beta-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli strains producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) isolated from the faecal flora of piglets. Place and Duration of Study: National Reference Center for Antibiotics and Mole...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/38449
Infections are one of the most serious and dreaded complication in hospital settings especially for patients admitted in Intensive Care Units. Risk factors like decreased immunity and prevalence of multidrug resistant organisms in the surroundings along with multitude of drugs ad...
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Research Article10.9734/AJMAH/2017/31434
Background: The early detection of extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producers in clinical microbiology is now of great importance to optimize appropriate therapeutic schemes and to improve the patient outcome. The ESBL NDP (Nordmann/Dortet/Poirel) test has been recently devel...
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Research Article10.9734/MRJI/2017/31689
Marwa M. E. Abd-Elmonsef, Haidy S. Khalil, Amal Selim, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Walaa Elkhalawany, Sameh Samir, Mohamed S. Abd-Elghafar & Mohamed M. E. Abd-Elmonsef·Microbiology Research Journal International·2016
Aims: This study aimed to investigate the frequency of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) isolated from various hospital-acquired infection cases admitted to Tanta University Hospital, Egypt and to determine the antibiotic resistance profile of these isolates. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/29240
Aim: To determine the prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) among clinical isolates of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Enterobacter cloacae (E. cloacae) in Nablus district. Methodology: In this prospective study carried out at An-Najah National University, a total o...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/27892
Aims: To study the prevalence of MDR and ESBL producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella oxytocaand perform RAPD (Random amplified polymorphic DNA) by optimizing PCR among isolated ESBL producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. Place and Duration of Study: This study was done to asses...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2016/23376
Introduction and Aim: Extended spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) production is one of the main means of the resistance developed by Gram negative bacteria against β-lactam antibiotics. The present study was carried out to evaluate the incidences of ESB...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/18199
Aims: Shigellosis is an acute intestinal infection caused by Shigella spp. Treatment with most widely used antimicrobial drugs became limited due to the emergence of multi-drug resistance (MDR). In Shigella spp., antimicrobial resistance is often associated with the presence of t...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/19498
Aims: The main objective of this study was to determine the resistance phenotype of β-lactamines by Klebsiella in three hospitals in Yaoundé. Study Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Bacteriology laboratories of three referrals hospitals in...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/18250