1. Nationwide surveillance of bacterial respiratory pathogens conducted by the surveillance committee of Japanese Society of Chemotherapy, the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases, and the Japanese Society for clinical microbiology in 2014: General view of the pathogens' antibacterial susceptibility.
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Yanagihara K, Matsumoto T, Aoki N, Sato J, Wakamura T, Kiyota H, Tateda K, Hanaki H, Ohsaki Y, Fujiuchi S, Takahashi M, Akiba Y, Masunaga S, Takeuchi K, Takeda H, Miki M, Kumagai T, Takahashi H, Utagawa M, Nishiya H, Kawakami S, Ishigaki S, Kobayasi N, Takasaki J, Mezaki K, Iwata S, Katouno Y, Inose R, Niki Y, Kawana A, Fujikura Y, Kudo M, Hirano T, Yamamoto M, Miyazawa N, Tsukada H, Aso S, Yamamoto Y, Iinuma Y, Mikamo H, Yamagishi Y, Nakamura A, Ohashi M, Kawabata A, Sugaki Y, Seki M, Hamaguchi S, Toyokawa M, Kakeya H, Fujikawa Y, Mitsuno N, Ukimura A, Miyara T, Hayasi M, Mikasa K, Kasahara K, Koizumi A, Korohasi N, Matumoto T, Yosimura Y, Katanami Y, Takesue Y, Wada Y, Sugimoto K, Yamamoto T, Kuwabara M, Doi M, Simizu S, Tokuyasu H, Hino S, Negayama K, Mukae H, Kawanami T, Yatera K, Fujita M, Kadota J, Hiramatsu K, Aoki Y, Magarifuchi H, Oho M, Morinaga Y, Suga M, Muranaka H, Fujita J, Higa F, and Tateyama M
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- Antimicrobial Stewardship, Haemophilus influenzae drug effects, Humans, Japan epidemiology, Klebsiella pneumoniae drug effects, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus drug effects, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Moraxella catarrhalis drug effects, Pseudomonas aeruginosa drug effects, Respiratory Tract Infections microbiology, Streptococcus pneumoniae drug effects, Streptococcus pyogenes drug effects, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Epidemiological Monitoring, Respiratory Tract Infections prevention & control
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The nationwide surveillance on antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial respiratory pathogens from the patients in Japan was conducted by Japanese Society of Chemotherapy, the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases, and the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology in 2014. The isolates were collected from clinical specimens obtained from well-diagnosed adult patients with respiratory tract infections during the period between January 2014 and April 2015 by three societies. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was conducted at the central reference laboratory according to the method recommended by Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute. Susceptibility testing was evaluated in 1534 strains (335 Staphylococcus aureus, 264 Streptococcus pneumoniae, 29 Streptococcus pyogenes, 281 Haemophilus influenzae, 164 Moraxella catarrhalis, 207 Klebsiella pneumoniae, and 254 Pseudomonas aeruginosa). Ratio of methicillin-resistant S. aureus was 43.6%, and those of penicillin-susceptible S. pneumoniae was 100%. Among H. influenzae, 8.2% of them were found to be β-lactamase-producing ampicillin-resistant strains, and 49.1% to be β-lactamase-non-producing ampicillin-resistant strains. Extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing K. pneumoniae and multi-drug resistant P. aeruginosa with metallo β-lactamase were 9.2% and 0.4%, respectively., (Copyright © 2019 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2019
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