Clinical significance and changes in antimicrobial resistance in ESBL producers isolated over the 2014-2016 in a regional teaching hospital

Abstract

The role of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in the etiology of respiratory tract, bloodstream, urinary tract and soft tissue infections in the Tyumen Regional Clinical Hospital has been evaluated for three years time period (2014-2016). Dependence of antimicrobial resistance of the above mentioned pathogens was estimated in accordance with the ESBL production status. The results of the study resembled the country-level data with some local features.

Keywords

• e. coli
• k. pneumoniae
• esbl
• antimicrobial resistance