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    Analysis of three outbreaks due to Klebsiella species in a neonatal intensive care unit
    (Slack Inc, 2003) Ayan, M; Kuzucu, C; Durmaz, R; Aktas, E; Cizmeci, Z
    OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical, microbiological, and epidemiologic features of three outbreaks caused by Klebsiella during 3 years. SETTING: Neonatal intensive care unit of a university hospital. PATIENTS: Thirty affected neonates. METHODS: Data were collected through chart reviews and conversations with physicians. Screening samples were obtained from the staff, the neonates, and the environment. Antibiogram typing and arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction-based fingerprinting were used to type the strains. RESULTS: The first outbreak had 13 K pneumoniae strains isolated. The second outbreak had 10 K. oxytoca strains isolated. The third outbreak had 20 K. pneumoniae strains isolated. More than half of the patients had low birth weights, were premature, and underwent mechanical ventilation and intravenous catheterization. Approximately three-fourths of the patients died. The isolates tested were completely susceptible to meropenem, cefoxitin, and ciprofloxacin and were resistant to cephalothin. More than half of these strains were resistant to many beta-lactam antibiotics, amikacin, and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole. Typing procedures yielded 3 antibiotypes and 3 genotypes among the isolates of the first outbreak, 3 antibiotypes with 1 subtype and 2 genotypes with 1 subtype in the second outbreak, and 2 antibiotypes and 2 genotypes in the third outbreak. CONCLUSIONS: Klebsiella outbreaks mainly affected premature neonates with intravenous catheters, mechanical ventilation, or both. The high mortality rate (76.7%) was notable. Resistance to multiple antibiotics, but mainly to broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics, was observed, particularly in K pneumoniae isolates. Molecular typing indicated that the three outbreaks were not related to one other.
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    Bacteriological, clinical and epidemiological characteristics of hospital-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii infection in a teaching hospital
    (W B Saunders Co Ltd, 2003) Ayan, M; Durmaz, R; Aktas, E; Durmaz, B
    Over an 18 month period, the bacteriological, clinical and epidemiological characteristics of nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii infections in a teaching hospital were studied. Typing studies were performed on 38 strains isolated from 36 patients. Twenty-two of the strains were isolated during the three outbreaks. Surgery, catheterization, mechanical ventilation, and antibiotic therapy for adult patients and respiratory distress syndrome, mechanical ventilation, and prematurity for paediatric patients were the main risk factors identified. All isolates were resistant to penicillins (except ampicillin-sulbactam), cephalosporins, gentamicin, and aztreonam but susceptible to carbapenems and colistin. Resistance to tobramycin, ciprofloxacin, ampicillin-sulbactam, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and amikacin was variable. Antibiotyping, arbitrarily-primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR) and the pulse-field get electrophoresis (PFGE) indicated the epidemiological relationship. The outbreak strains, demonstrated genetic distinction between our three outbreaks and isolates from specific areas in the hospital. (C) 2003 The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Bacteriology of chronic maxillary sinusitis and normal maxillary sinuses: Using culture and multiplex polymerase chain reaction
    (Ocean Side Publications Inc, 2003) Kalcioglu, MT; Durmaz, B; Aktas, E; Ozturan, O; Durmaz, R
    Background: Although many investigations have been performed on bacteriology of chronic sinusitis and normal sinuses, there still is much discussion. Also a new bacterial agent, Alloiococcus otitidis determined in the nasopharynx and middle ear specimens can be thought as a causative agent of sinusitis. Methods: The bacteriology of chronic maxillary sinusitis and maxillary sinuses with normal radiogram and endoscopic findings were studied by culture methods for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to investigate four bacteria in study and control groups. There were 27 specimens in the study group and 28 specimens in the control group. Results: In the study group, the bacteria commonly isolated were Staphylococcus aureus (11.1%), alpha-hemolytic streptococci (11.1%), Streptococcus pneumoniae (11.1%), Haemophilus influenzae (7.4%), coagulase-negative staphylococci (7.4%), and anaerobes (33.3%). Coagulase-negative staphylococci (14.3%), alpha-hemolytic streptococci (10.7%), and anaerobes (35.7%) were isolated also in the control group. PCR was used to investigate S. pneumoniae, H. influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and A. otitidis in the study and control groups. None of these bacteria was determined in the control group whereas detection rates of these bacteria in the study group were 11.1, 11.1, 3.7, and 7.4%, respectively. It should be considered that PCR yielded faint amplification band for A. otitidis. Conclusion: Using multiplex PCR can help to increase detection rates of bacterial etiology. Healthy sinuses are not sterile. A. otitidis may be one of the pathogens causing sinusitis.
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    Molecular characterization of isoniazid and rifampin resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from Malatya, Turkey
    (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2005) Aktas, E; Durmaz, R; Yang, D; Yang, ZH
    Molecular characterization of drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of different origins can generate information useful for developing molecular methods that are widely applicable for rapid drug resistance detection. Using DNA sequencing and allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (AS-PCR), we investigated genetic mutations associated with isoniazid (INH) and rifampin (RIF) resistance among 29 drug-resistant clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis collected from Malatya, Turkey, including 19 multi-drug-resistant (MDR) isolates. Point mutations were detected at codons 531, 516, 526, and 513 of the RNA polymerase beta-subunit gene (rpoB) in 10 (47.6%), five (23.8%), three (14.3%), and three (14.3%) of the 21 RIF-resistant isolates, respectively. Of the five isolates having mutations in codon 516, three also had mutations at codon 527; one had a concurrent mutation at codon 572. Mutations at codon 315 of the catalase-peroxidase-encoding gene (katG) were found in 17 (63.0%) of the 27 INH-resistant isolates. Interestingly, the katG codon 315 mutation was observed at a much higher frequency in MDR isolates than in INH-mono-resistant isolates (similar to 79% vs. 25%). This study provided the first molecular characterization of INH and RIF resistance of M. tuberculosis clinical isolates from Eastern Turkey, and extended our knowledge of molecular basis of M. tuberculosis drug resistance.
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    Nasopharyngeal carriage, antimicrobial susceptibility, serotype distribution and clonal relatedness of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in healthy children in Malatya, Turkey
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2005) Bayraktar, MR; Durmaz, B; Kalcioglu, MT; Durmaz, R; Cizmeci, Z; Aktas, E
    The aims of this study were to assess the nasopharyngeal colonisation rate, serogroup and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Strepto-coccus pneumoniae strains isolated from healthy children. Of 848 children, 162 (19.1 %) were found to be carriers. The carrier rate was significantly higher in the 7-year-old age group. Children from the slums of the city had higher carriage rate (23.7%) than those in the centre of the city (17.7%), but this was not statistically significant. The number of intermediate penicillin-resistant strains was 17 (10.5%). No high-level penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae strain was found. The rates of resistance to co-trimoxazole, erythromycin, tetracycline and clindamycin were 11.7%, 4.9%, 4.3% and 3.7%, respectively. All isolates were uniformly susceptible to rifampicin, moxifloxacin, levofloxacin and vancomycin. Fourteen different serogroups were identified. The most prevalent serogroups in descending order were 9, 19, 23, 10, 6 and 18, accounting for 76.3% of the isolates. Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction typing of 105 isolates revealed that 25 (23.8%) of the isolates were clonally indistinguishable. This value was 20.9% in children from the central area and 36.8% in those from the slum of the city. There was no relationship between serogroups and genotypes, i.e. strains within the same serogroup yielded the same or different genotypes, and vice versa. In conclusion, serogrouping results give a preliminary idea about the possible coverage of a future pneumococcal vaccine. Penicillin G is still a suitable agent for the empirical treatment of pneumococcal infections in our population. Living in the slum of the city may lead to both increased carriage and clustering rates of S. pneumoniae among healthy children. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. and the International Society of Chemotherapy. All rights reserved.
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    Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriers in asymptomatic children and clonal relatedness among isolates in Malatya, Turkey
    (Amer Soc Microbiology, 2003) Durmaz, R; Durmaz, B; Bayraktar, M; Ozerol, IH; Kalcioglu, MT; Aktas, E; Cizmeci, Z
    In our study, the prevalence of nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pyogenes was 130 (14.3%) of 909 healthy children. Isolates were found to be susceptible to all antibiotics tested. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and arbitrarily primed PCR revealed that 34 (32.4%) of the 105 isolates and 41 (40.6%) of the 101 isolates typed, respectively, were clonally indistinguishable.