Studies of antimicrobial resistance in rare mycobacteria from a nosocomial environment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous in nature and recognized agents of opportunistic infection, which is often aggravated by their intrinsic resistance to antimicrobials, poorly defined therapeutic strategies and by the lack of new drugs. However, evaluation of their prevalence in anthropogenic environments and the associated antimicrobial resistance profiles have been neglected. In this work, we sought to determine minimal inhibitory concentrations of 25 antimicrobials against 5 NTM isolates recovered from a tertiary-care hospital surfaces. Antimicrobial susceptibilities of 5 other Corynebacterineae isolated from the same hospital were also determined for their potential clinical relevance.

Results

Our phylogenetic study with each of the NTM isolates

SUBMITTER: Pereira SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6425705 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature