Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns for recent clinical isolates of anaerobic bacteria in South Korea.
We determined the antimicrobial susceptibilities of 255 clinical isolates of anaerobic bacteria collected in 2007 and 2008 at a tertiary-care hospital in South Korea. Piperacillin-tazobactam, cefoxitin, imipenem, and meropenem were highly active beta-lactam agents against most of the isolates tested. The rates of resistance of Bacteroides fragilis group organisms and anaerobic gram-positive cocci to moxifloxacin were 11 to 18% and 0 to 27%, respectively.
Lee
Yangsoon
Y
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 250 Seongsanro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, South Korea.
Park
Yongjung
Y
Kim
Myung Sook
MS
Yong
Dongeun
D
Jeong
Seok Hoon
SH
Lee
Kyungwon
K
Chong
Yunsop
Y
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001372:Aza Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology; D001421:Bacteria, Anaerobic / Q000187:drug effects*; D001441:Bacteroides fragilis / Q000187:drug effects; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D024841:Fluoroquinolones; D006095:Gram-Positive Cocci / Q000187:drug effects; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D000077266:Moxifloxacin; D011804:Quinolines / Q000494:pharmacology; D056910:Republic of Korea
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D001372:Aza Compounds; D024841:Fluoroquinolones; D011804:Quinolines; D000077266:Moxifloxacin