A study of Enterococcus faecalis isolates sensitivity to isolated antibiotics from different disease sources.

Abstract

The total number of 310 different clinical samples were collected from Baquba Educational Hospital and Al - Batol Hospital for Maternity and Children in Baquba city from the beginning of March to the end of September 2009 . The characterizations of morphology and biochemical test for isolates showed that 28 isolates (9%) belonged to E. faecalis. The sensitivity of isolates were tested against 23 different antibiotics.They showed resistance of about (100%) against Aztreonam, Amikacin, Co -Trimoxazole, Cephalexin and Cefotaxime, while they were sensitive about (100%) against Amoxicillin, Nitrofurantoin, Imipenem and Ampicillin, while they showed a various resistance to another antibiotics involved in this study .