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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΣ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΑΚΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΓΟΝΤΩΝ

Abstract

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THE PRESENT STUDY IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS: THE FIRST PART (ANTIBIOTICS), WAS UNDERTAKEN IN ORDER TO EVALUATE THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF 9 ANTIBIOTICS IN VITRO. THEY WERE TESTED AGAINST 150 STRAINS OF P. AERUGINOSA, WHICH HAD BEEN ISOLATED FROM VARIOUS HOSPITALS OF ATHENS AREA, AND VARIOUS CLINICAL MATERIALS.SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTS OF THESE STRAINS TO THE ANTIBIOTICS WERE PERFORMED INDIVIDUALLY BY THE DETERMINATION OF MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATIONS (MIC), USING ACONVENTIONAL AGAR DILUTION TECHNIQUE EMPLOYING MUELLER-HINTON AGAR. THE SUSCEPTIBILITY PERCENTAGES OF THE 150 STRAINS TO THE 9 ANTIBIOTICS TESTED WERE AS FOLLOWS: CIPROFLOXACIN 100%, CEFTAZADIME 88%, THIENAMYCIN 82%, AZTREONAM 81%, NALIDIXIC ACID 51%, CEFOTAXIM 41%, CARBENICILLIN 36%, GENTAMICIN 23% AND CLOROMPHENICOL 0%. IN THE SECOND PART OF THIS STUDY (ANTISEPTICS), WE EVALUATED THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF 12 CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS: IRGASAN DP300, O-PHENYLPHENOL, (IRGASAN - O- PHENYLPHENOL), SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE, SODIUM LAURYL ETHER SULFATE, CETRIMIDE, MIRANOL C2M, MIRANOL CM, MIRANOL C2MSF, MIRANOL H2M, MIRATAINE BB AND MIRATAINE CB, USING THE DILUTION- NEUTRALIZATION METHOD (NF T72-50). THE TESTEDMICROORGANISMS WERE: S. AUREUS, STR. FAECALIS, E. COLI AND P. AERUGINOSA. IN THE THIRD PART (ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS), WE STUDIED 5 CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS: IRGASAN DP300, O-PHENYLPHENOL, (IRGASAN, CETRIMIDE), MIRANOL CM AND MIRABOL A 15. THEIR ACTIVITY WAS DETERMINED BY THE DILUTION- NEUTRALIZATION METHOD NF T72-200. THE TESTED MICROORGANISMS WERE: CANDIDA ALBICANS, ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR, PENICILLIUMVERRUCOSUM AND CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES.

Degree

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Year dc:date
1988

Author and committee

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Authors dc:creator
  • Tumah, Haitham
  • Τουμά, Χαϊθάμ

Subjects

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gre

Identifiers

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Identifier
10.12681/eadd/1358
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:10442/1358

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citation

Tumah, Haitham; Τουμά, Χαϊθάμ. ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΣ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΑΚΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΓΟΝΤΩΝ. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/1358