A simple disc diffusion method for detecting AmpC and extended-spectrum Ý-lactamases in clinical isolates of enterobacteriaceae /
الممتدة في العينات الاكلينيكية المعزولة Ý-lactamasesو سلسلة الAmpCإستخدام طريقة الإنتشار القرصي لتحديد ال
Marwa Aref Mahmoud ; Supervised Mona Abdelaziz Wassef , Sahar Mohammed Khairat , Rasha Hamed Elsherif
- Cairo : Marwa Aref Mahmoud , 2012
- 136 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology
We thought to determine whether extended spectrum Ý-lactamases (ESBLs) and AmpC Ý-lactamases (derepressed and inducible), alone or in combination, could be detected in clinical isolates of the enterobacteriaceae using a simple, overnight disc diffusion test. 178 of 400 enterobacterial isolates were included according to selection criteria: resistance to third generation cephalosporins CPD and CTX and to cephamycins FOX