Yonsei Med J.  1974 Jun;15(1):1-10. 10.3349/ymj.1974.15.1.1.

Anaerobic Bacteria in Routine Diagnosiic Cultures

• Chong Y
• Ine SH
• Choe MH
• Yi KN
• Lee SY

• KMID: 687679
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.1974.15.1.1

Abstract

Importance of anaerobic bacteria is often neglected in clinical bacteriology due to difficulties of isolation and identification. Anaerobic infection became more important as more patients with defective defence against microbial invasion are treated at hospitals. This is a report of studies of anaerobe isolation from clinical specimens and antibiotic susceptibilities. Clinical cases with anaerobe isolation are also presented to stress importance of anaerobes as etiologic agents. 128 anaerobe strains from 111 patients, were isolated in 1972 and 1973. Among these, 82% were non-sporeforming anaerobes. Isolation of anaerobes was frequent from specimens of pleural, and abdominal fluid, and liver. In some patients, anaerobes were isolated in pure culture. Gram-positive organisms were susceptible to many antibiotics. Bacteroides fragilis was susceptible to chloramphenicol and tetracyline, but resistant to many other antibiotics. Overall antibiotic susceptibility was similar to the results by other workers in other countries.

MeSH Terms

Anaerobiosis
Bacteria/isolation & purification
Bacterial Infections/diagnosis*
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Human
Microbial Sensitivity Tests