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Background: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA] strains are one of the main bacteria responsible for development of nosocomial infections. Therefore, the detection and identification of these strains can be very effective in the treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the pattern of antibiotic MRSA strains isolated from clinical samples in Ali ibn Abi Talib hospital in 2014
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 119 isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aurous were isolated from 460 samples; antibiotic resistance pattern was studied by disk diffusion method. The MRSA strains were first approved by CefoxitinDisk
Results: The highest and lowest resistances were found in penicillin and vancomycin, respectively. Distribution of resistance in MRSA strains in children was allocated to the highest percentages
Conclusion: According to the increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance, especially for resistant strains to several antibiotics, rapid detection, on time and accurate resistant strains by using international standards, in order to make appropriate treatment options and preventing the spread of resistance between strains is necessary
ABSTRACT
This study was conducted to evaluate the anti Mycobacterium tuberculosis effects of Ocimum sanctum directly and in macrophage culture which were infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis before treatment with different concentrations of this plant. Suspensions of bacteria were prepared in 7H9 broth and after Macrophage culture, cell suspensions of the M.tuberculosis were added to the attached macrophages. Adherent monolayers was disrupted and bacterial suspensions were serially diluted and plated onto Middle brook 7H10 agar plates. Colonies were counted under a dissecting microscope and reported as CFU. For each culture dilution, six replicate samples were plated and the mean number of colonies was calculated and then Intracellular and extra cellular killing of Ocimum sanctum extracts were measured by colony counting. Present findings showed that in a defined laboratory and macrophage culture, Ocimum sanctum has a potent anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis effects both directly and in infected macrophage culture. In this study we confirmed anti-tuberculosis effects of different concentration of O. sanctum extracts in vitro and in Macrophage culture but key components of anti tuberculosis action of these extracts and their mechanisms of actions must be discovered in future researches