… high resistance rates of clinical isolates to tigecycline and colistin, high level resistance to the
… to both tigecycline and colistin, in our study, is of great concern as the emergence of these …

… Hospital, UAE during a 2-year period were investigated for their susceptibility to tigecycline
… Three categories of resistance patterns emerged among the isolates; 11 (34.4%) each were …

… from patients treated in nine different hospitals in Kuwait. Susceptibility testing to eighteen
… CLSI recommendations, 3 except for tigecycline and colistin. For tigecycline, we used the …

… susceptible to tigecycline.Unfortunately, A. baumannii resistance to colistin has also emerged,
… Taiwan,21 12% from Kuwait,22 and 27.9% from Korea.The long-term use of colistin and …

… from nine hospitals in four Chinese provinces reported a resistance rate of 16.1% [60], whilst
another result from 77 non-duplicate S. maltophilia isolates collected from 38 hospitals in …

… coli were equally poor although there were some differences in the susceptibility levels to
carbapenems, aminoglycoside, colistin, and tigecycline. We foresee a situation where …

… baumannii is the presence of an efflux pump the possible explanation for tigecycline
resistance in this study could be that exhibition to multiple antibiotics in the hospitals, highly …

… tigecycline compared with other antimicrobial agents using a variety of consecutive recently
isolated clinical pathogens. The emergence … in conclusion, Kuwait hospitals continue to have …

Objectives: Outbreak and endemic isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii are known to be
polyclonal. In an ongoing study, we hypothesized that the patient gut was the source of the …

… colistin and tigecycline must be restrictive and discriminative so as to hamper the emergence
of … in hospital setups to help formulate the antibiotic policies. For isolates from Saudi Arabia, …