title: Anaerobic bacteria in postsurgical infections: isolation rate and antimicrobial susceptibility.
abstract: Three hundred clinical samples, obtained from post-surgical infections, were evaluated. 37% of samples were positive for anaerobes, 99 samples (33%) for aerobes and anaerobes in mixed culture, and 13 (4%) only for anaerobes. One hundred forty-nine anaerobic strains were isolated: Bacteroides and Clostridia occurred most frequently (34% and 23% respectively). Antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolates was tested by means of a commercial broth microdilution method. In addition, the standardized agar dilution method was performed to evaluate the susceptibility to 8 antibiotics of the 51 Bacteroides strains.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, Università di Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Di Rosa
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Di Rosa
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Panichi
mesh_terms: D001421:Bacteria, Anaerobic / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000382:microbiology*