Original Paper | 27-September-2017
Antimicrobial resistance has been one of the biggest global current issues in medicine and public health. Overuse and imprudent use of antimicrobial agents are recognized as one of the leading causes of antibiotic resistance. The aim of this study was to analyze the attitudesof Polish physicians practicing at the community level towards antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance. The majority of physicians taking part in the survey believed that Polish people overuse antibiotics (98%). Most
Beata Mazińska,
Waleria Hryniewicz
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 66 , ISSUE 3, 309–319
Article | 12-October-2020
możliwości skutecznej terapii zakażeń nie tylko w szpitalach, ale również w lecznictwie otwartym. Wymiar zagrożeń, które niesie ze sobą AMR porównywany jest do katastroficznych skutków wynikających ze zmian klimatu, co już w 2013 roku podkreślała Dame Sally Davis, naczelna lekarz Wielkiej Brytanii [18]. Problem ten został bardzo mocno wskazany w dokumencie „Antimicrobial Resistance: Global Report on surveillance” wydanym przez Światową Organizację Zdrowia w kwietniu 2014 roku [40]. Zawierał on poważne
Beata Mazińska,
Waleria Hryniewicz
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 59 , ISSUE 3, 249–257
mini-review | 16-October-2021
underlying the spread of antibiotic resistance determinants, it is reasonable to study the whole resistome of bacteria in various environments (von Wintersdorff et al. 2016). Resistome is a pool of the existing antimicrobial resistance genes, including the regularly expressed genes, silent genes, and gene precursors, which exhibit different expression levels, and resistance genes from nonpathogenic strains (Nesme and Simonet 2015). The microbiological studies are focused on antimicrobial resistance
MONIKA STASIAK,
ELŻBIETA MAĆKIW,
JOANNA KOWALSKA,
KATARZYNA KUCHAREK,
JACEK POSTUPOLSKI
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 70 , ISSUE 4, 421–429
Original Paper | 27-September-2017
resistance. In this study several commercial pig farms and pigs with different age groups as well as farm workers and samples from environment were examined with the purpose of detecting MRSA prevalence and evaluating antimicrobial resistance. A total of 85 isolated MRSA strains were characterised by conventional microbial and molecular methods. MRSA was found in all farms. MRSA prevalence in different pig age groups and farms varied from none to 79.2% reaching higher values among 3–3.5 (26.6%) and
Meldra Ivbule,
EdvĪns Miklaševičs,
Liene Čupāne,
Laima Bērziņa,
Andris Bāliņš,
Anda Valdovska
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 66 , ISSUE 3, 383–392
Article | 10-June-2019
of them was responsible for the creation of four VRE foci, three of which were associated with the VanA phenotype, and one with VanB. The strains belonging to this clone demonstrated the ability to conduct a haemolysis process, but were not able to produce gelatinase [17].
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Treatment of enterococcal infections and antimicrobial resistance
Standard treatment of enterococcal infections involves applying a combination of aminoglycoside with vancomycin or ampicillin [4]. The main problem in the
Wojciech Rogóż,
Daniel Sypniewski,
Ilona Bednarek
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 58 , ISSUE 1, 35–48
original-paper | 17-September-2021
MINGHUI ZHU,
QIANG ZHU,
ZHEN YANG,
ZHIXIN LIANG
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 70 , ISSUE 3, 321–326
Article | 12-October-2020
Adrianna Raczkowska,
Karolina Jaworska,
Łukasz Wyrożemski,
Katarzyna Brzostek
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 59 , ISSUE 3, 259–276
Short Communication | 15-March-2016
Anna Zawistowska-Rojek,
Tomasz Zaręba,
Agnieszka Mrówka,
Stefan Tyski
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 65 , ISSUE 1, 97–104
original-paper | 28-June-2019
Introduction
The emergence and spread of drug-resistant bacteria have always been a public concern. With the increase of resistance to available antimicrobial agents and the emergence of multi-drug resistant bacteria, antimicrobial resistance has caused serious threats to public health in the world (Livermore 2012; Rossolini et al. 2014; Yang et al. 2017). It can cause damage to human health and, at the same time, it can lead to a situation where there is no cure. The research reported that
TINGTING MAO,
HUIJUAN ZHAI,
GUANGCAI DUAN,
HAIYAN YANG
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 68 , ISSUE 2, 225–232
Research Article | 24-May-2019
Magdalena Kizerwetter-Świda,
Dorota Chrobak-Chmiel,
Magdalena Rzewuska
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 57 , ISSUE 3, 270–277
Research Article | 24-May-2019
Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance are two of the most important threats in the contemporary medicine, representing a serious burden for the public health system. Previously regarded only as an innocuous commensal microorganism of human skin, S. epidermidis is nowadays seen as an important opportunistic pathogen and the most frequent cause of nosocomial infections. S. epidermidis is the most genetically diverse species within the genus Staphylococcus. Strains
Beata Podgórska,
Danuta Kędzia
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 57 , ISSUE 4, 348–359
Original Paper | 04-December-2017
Pseudomonas aeruginosa rods are one of the most commonly isolated microorganisms from clinical specimens, usually responsible for nosocomial infections. Antibiotic-resistant P. aeruginosa strains may present reduced expression of virulence factors. This fact may be caused by appropriate genome management to adapt to changing conditions of the hospital environment. Virulence factors genes maybe replaced by those crucial to survive, like antimicrobial resistance genes. The aim of this study was
Tomasz Bogiel,
Aleksander Deptuła,
Joanna Kwiecińska-Piróg,
Małgorzata Prażyńska,
Agnieszka Mikucka,
Eugenia Gospodarek-Komkowska
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 66 , ISSUE 4, 427–431
Article | 30-November-2018
Typhimurium and less frequently other serovars found in pigs and pig carcasses. The fact that no resistance to carbapenems was found in the tested Salmonella rods, both those isolated from pigs and cattle, as well as those isolated from carcasses of the said animals, can be perceived encouraging.
The acquisition of antimicrobial resistance by commensal bacteria colonising animals remains in direct dependence on the intensity of their use. Consequently, this leads to the selective pressure of these
Marian Binek,
Magdalena Kizerwetter-Świda,
Magdalena Rzewuska,
Dorota Chrobak-Chmiel,
Agnieszka Sałamaszyńska-Guz
Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, Volume 58 , ISSUE 3, 259–270
Original Paper | 15-March-2016
Katarzyna Obszańska,
Izabella Kern-Zdanowicz,
Aleksandra Kozińska,
Katarzyna Machura,
Elżbieta Stefaniuk,
Waleria Hryniewicz,
Izabela Sitkiewicz
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 65 , ISSUE 1, 33–41
Short Communication | 28-December-2016
Agata Bielawska-Drózd,
Bożena Wlizło-Skowronek,
Piotr Cieślik,
Izabela Winnicka,
Ewa Skopińska-Różewska,
Leszek Kubiak,
Dorota Żakowska,
Aleksandra Brewczyńska,
Janusz Kocik
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 65 , ISSUE 4, 465–469
Original Paper | 15-March-2016
antimicrobial resistance surveillance programs to monitor the changing resistance patterns so that clinicians and health care officials are updated as to the most effective therapeutic agents to combat the serious outcomes of P. aeruginosa infections.
Mohamed E. El Zowalaty,
Béla Gyetvai
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 65 , ISSUE 1, 23–32
original-paper | 28-March-2019
antimicrobial resistance genes that could be transferred horizontally (via plasmids and conjugative transposons, integrons or insertion sequences) to pathogens during their passage through the gastrointestinal tract (Jose et al. 2015). This fact justifies the importance of previously determining antimicrobial resistance patterns before using a LAB strain as a probiotic. Due to their natural origin, LAB isolates from Amazonian fruits could be a safe alternative to be used as probiotics; however, it is
JOHANNA SÁNCHEZ,
CARLOS VEGAS,
AMPARO IRIS ZAVALETA,
BRAULIO ESTEVE-ZARZOSO
Polish Journal of Microbiology, Volume 68 , ISSUE 1, 127–137