@article{ijcd2020847,
author={{Toubar, Saly M. E. and Zaky, Mahmoud M. M. and El-Shafey, Ahmed Samy},
title={Isolation and Laboratory Diagnosis of Antibiotic-resistant <i>E. coli</i><i> </i>from Surgical Wounds of Inpatients at Zagazig University Hospitals, Egypt},
journal={International Journal of Celiac Disease},
volume={8},
number={4},
pages={143--146},
year={2020},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijcd/8/4/7},
issn={2334-3486},
abstract={<i>E. coli </i>is one of the most common community and nosocomial pathogens and it mainly causes skin and soft tissue infections. So, the current study aimed to study the isolation of antibiotic-resistant <i>E.</i><i>coli</i><i> </i>strains in Egypt, Hospitals. Study their antibiotic susceptibility profile and therapy to control and present the transmission of <i>E</i><i>. coli</i> strains among the health care settings.120 pus samples were collected from post-operation wounds of a study group of inpatients in Egypt, Hospitals. Bacteria colonizing the wounds were isolated on specific culture media thereafter purified and divided into 4 groups depending on their morphological characters and Gram's stain reaction Isolated bacteria were divided into 4 groups. Group (I) represented 40% of total isolates; while group (II) &amp; (III) represented 25% and group (IV) 22%. Isolated bacteria related to groups I, II, III &amp; IV were preliminary identified as <i>S. aureus. E. coli, K</i>. <i>pneumoniae </i>and<i> P</i>. <i>aeruginosa, </i>respectively. Antibiotic susceptibility of the 4 groups of isolated bacteria against 10 different antibiotics revealed that Ciprofloxacin showed the highest activity against <i>E. coli. </i>Data revealed that strain encoded <i>E.coli 6</i> is a multi-resistant strain as it resisted 13 antibiotics out of 15 (86.7%).},
doi={10.12691/ijcd-8-4-7}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}