Kazi Sarjana Safain, Golam Sarower Bhuyan, Saad Hassan Hasib, Mohammad Sazzadul Islam, Mohammad Al Mahmud-Un-Nabi, Rosy Sultana, Sadia Tasnim, Farjana Akther Noor, Suprovath Kumar Sarker, Md Tarikul Islam, Asifuzzaman Rahat, Daniel T Leung, Daryl Domman, Farhana Manzoor, Sajid Anwar, Md Abdul Majid Bhuiyan, Emran Kabir Chowdhury, Syed Saleheen Qadri, Firdausi Qadri, Kaiissar Mannoor
OBJECTIVES: Characterisation of resistance phenotype and genotype is crucial to understanding the burden and transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study aims to determine the spectrum of AMR and associated genes encoding aminoglycoside, macrolide and β-lactam classes of antimicrobials in bacteria isolated from hospitalised patients in Bangladesh. METHODS: 430 bacterial isolates from patients with respiratory, intestinal, wound infections and typhoid fever, presenting to clinical care from 2015 to 2019, were examined...
July 2021: Tropical Medicine & International Health