e-test antibiotic susceptibility of e.coli strains isolated from hospital acquired infections of imam khomeini hospital, ilam, iran

Introduction: escherichia coli (e.coli) as a main cause of both nosocomial and communityacquired infections in humans have a relative potential to develop resistance. nowadays, most infections caused by esblproducing e.coli (esblec) had mostly been described as nosocomial acquired or nursing home related. in this study, we employed etest assay to detect antibiotic resistance of e.coli strains and determine mic of antibiotics.materials and methods: thirty e.coli strains gathered from imam khomeini hospital of ilam, and cultured on tsb and bacterial suspension prepared by 0.5 µf concentration for etest. mueller hinton agar and etest strips of amikacin, cefepime, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, gentamicin, meropenem, nitrofurantoin, piperacillin/tazobactam, tetracycline, ticarcillin/ clavulanic acid, tobramycin, trimethoprim were usedresults: resistance to ceftriaxone, tobramycin, gentamicin, ticarcillin/ clavulanic, amikacin were 19.8%, 26.4%, 23.3%, 62.7%, 70.3%, respectively.conclusion: the results indicated, e.coli strains in this study were high sensitivity to meropenem ,nitrofuratoin, ciprofloxacin , ceftazidime, cefepime.