[Coryneform bacteria: their clinical significance and resistance patterns during a three-year study].
We report data concerning our experience during three years (1998-2001) about isolation, identification and susceptibility towards antimicrobial agents of coryneform bacteria in infections of hospitalized/at risk patients. We isolated 54 Corynebacterium spp., with prevalence of C. striatum (8 strains) and C. amycolatum (7 strains), and 1 strain of Oerskovia spp. and 1 strain of Actinomyces neuii. 31 strains were isolated from the "exit-site" and 6 from peritoneal fluid of CAPD patients. Vancomycin and teicoplanin were always "in vitro" efficacious. Resistance rates towards other antibiotics were the following: 11% for minocycline, 12.5% for tetracycline, 20% for gentamicin and netilmicin, 61% for erythromycin and chloramphenicol, 66% for penicillin.
Scuola di Specializzazione in Patologia Clinica, Universita degli Studi di Perugina, Italy.
Manuela
M
Ubaldi
Maria Letizia
ML
D'Annibale
Maria Chiara
MC
Medori
Daniele
D
Crotti
D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D000193:Actinomycetales Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D004351:Drug Resistance; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013045:Species Specificity