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Susceptibility of Aminoglycoside Resistant <i> Acinetobacter baumannii </i> to Antibiotic Combinations

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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ACINETOBACTER baumannii (A. baumannii ) is considered one of the predominant antibiotic resistance pathogens involved in hospital acquired infections worldwide problem. The study investigated the effect of antibiotic combination of β-lactams (ceftriaxone, cefixime, carpabenem and impenim) and aminoglycosides against 5 clinical isolates of A. baumannii multidrug resistant. Over one year, 250 bacterial isolates were collected from 5 Egyptian hospitals from various infection sites. Two hundred out of 250 bacterial isolates were identified as A. baumannii based on phenotypic and genotypic techniques. The susceptibility of two-hundred A. baumannii strains against 21 different antibiotics was studied. The results showed that the highest resistance was to Cephalosporins, group was 99% followed by Quinolones & Fluoroquinolone was 90, 5 followed by penicillin 87.5, then Sulfa drugs was 75.5 then Carbapenem was 73 and finally Aminoglycosides was 60.5%. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MICs) values of aminoglycosides resistant A. baumannii strains ranged from 32 to >512mg/ml and β-lactam group ranged from 16 to >512mg/ml. Forty-five combined microtitre checkerboards were performed against the 5 totally aminoglycoside resistant A. baumannii strains to assess the potential for combination therapy. Combination of aminoglycoside antibiotics with β-lactams showed synergy action in thirty- eight (84%) of total forty-five combinations. Synergy was achieved with 100%, with the following combinations GN/IMP, GN/CRO, GN/CFM, AK/CRO, AK/CFM, TOB/CRO and TOB/CFM. No synergism was observed with combination between amikacin and imipenem.

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10.21608/ejm.2019.16809.1115

Keywords

<i> Acinetobacter baumannii </i>, Aminoglycosides, β-lactams combination, Synergy

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Feriala

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Abo safe

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Botany Department, College of Women for Arts, Science and Education, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt

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ferialabusafe@gmail.com

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cairo

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Neven

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Salah

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Microbiology Department, National Organization for Drug Control and Research (NODCAR), Cairo, Egypt

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nevensalah@yahoo.com

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giza

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Mohamed

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Rashed

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Microbiology Department, National Organization for Biological Control and Research, Cairo, Egypt

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mohamed@yahoo.com

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giza

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Sarah

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Saad

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Botany Department, College of Women for Arts, Science and Education, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt

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mona_mbrk@yahoo.com

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giza

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54

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1

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10360

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2019-01-01

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2019-09-11

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2019-01-01

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137

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147

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0022-2704

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2357-0881

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Egyptian Journal of Microbiology

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22 Jan 2023