TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaimaa Mohamed Elsayed Seleim
AU  - Doaa Mahdy Mohamed Elwakil , 
AU  - Mohamed Hamdy Mohamed Saleh , 
AU  - Mona Abdelwahab Abdelmassih , 
TI  - Biofilm formation by acinetobacter species isolated from intensive care units of Kasr Alainy University hospitals and its impact on antibiotic resistance / 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Shaimaa Mohamed Elsayed Seleim , 
KW  - Acinetobacter
KW  - Antibiotic resistance
KW  - Biofilm
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Issued also as CD
N2  - Acinetobacter spp. are important clinical pathogens and are considered as one of the major causes of  healthcare-associated  pneumonia, bacteremia,  UTI  and  wound  infections. Unfortunately, the  treatment of Acinetobacter infections  is  becoming more difficult because nosocomial isolates are increasingly resistant to commonly used antimicrobial agents.The potential ability of Acinetobacter to form biofilm might explain its outstanding antibiotic resistance, survival properties and increased virulence. The aim of the present study was to detect the  biofilm formation by Acinetobacter isolates  and  their antibiotic resistance  pattern.  In addition, it attempted to investigate the impact of biofilm formation on antibiotic resistance.A total of 50 isolates of Acinetobacter, recovered from patients admitted to ICUs, were collected from laboratories of Kasr Al-Ainy University hospitals. The isolates were recovered from different clinical samples, then subcultured on MacConkey{u2019}s medium and identified by conventional microbiological methods. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed by Kirby- Bauer disk diffusion method and for polymyxin, broth microdilution method was used.The ability of Acinetobacter spp. to produce biofilm was determined using tissue culture plate method. Acinetobacter isolates were most frequently recovered from respiratory samples (54%)
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