Induced and Constitutive Clindamycin Resistance in Staphylococcus spp. Strains Isolated from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

Aims:The hospital environment can act as a reservoir for microorganisms, which in turn can contaminate a range of hospital equipment and survive for long periods of time. One of these environments the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), for the initial post partum period serving as a home for newborns of low birth weight and needing invasive procedures for administration of nutritional and medicinal substances, which makes the NICU a critical area for housing individuals with immune system. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the phenotypic appearance of resistance of the Staphylococcus spp. compared to erythromycin and clindamycin, originating from

Clindamycin Resistance among Methicillin Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> Isolated from Human and Respective Household Swine in Greater Kabale Region—South Western Uganda

“…Also, Mohammad, 2012 reported 32.5% of MRSA were cMLSB phenotypes and 10% were iMLSB phenotype. These variations could probably be due to differences in the circulating clones or due to the variations in infection prevention practices and trends of antibiotics prescriptions in the community and veterinary practice [32].…”