Background: The problem of antibiotic resistance has become worldwide health issue
among hospitalized patients in developing countries, where the inappropriate usage of …

Hospital acquired infection (HAI) is an infection which develops 48 hours after hospital
admission, that was not incubating at the time of admission to hospital. In patients with HAI …

The prevalence of Extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBLs) enzymes are considered a
large problem all over the world. The misuse of broad-spectrum-antibiotics especially in …

Introduction: In this decade, the CTX-M family of enzymes are considered to be the most
common type of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs). The production of these Class A …

Seventy clinical isolates of Escherichia coli were obtained from two tertiary care hospitals in
Taif Governorate, Saudi Arabia and investigated for their susceptibility to 15 antibiotics of …

Aim. Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is an encapsulated Gram-negative bacterium
that can lead to 14–20% of nosocomial infections. e ability of biofilm formation in this …

The worldwide prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) has raised dramatically over the past
two decades (Zaccardi, 2016). It affects more than 120 million people worldwide and it is …

Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae cause a wide range of infections. Multidrug-
resistance strains carrying extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) has become a …

As very little information is known of the antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria in
Libya in addition to the desperate need for insight knowledge of the antibiotic resistance in …

Background: Escherichia coli is part of the normal human intestinal microflora, although it
has the potential of causing a variety of invasive and diarrheal diseases. It is also a frequent …