Author(s)

Israa Abdul Jabbar Ibrahim^*, Tuqa Abdul Kareem Hameed

Department of Biology, College of Education for Pure Science Ibn Al-Haitham, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.

The lactose-fermenter Enterobacteriaceae are the most frequent cause of clinical infection in our country. The objective of this study was to isolate and identify the most common lactose-fermenter Enterobacteriaceae from clinical samples, including urine, blood, wounds, and sputum, obtained from the local hospital and from environmental samples from a chicken farm, agriculture soil, and water from the Tigris River in Baghdad City. The study also aimed at establishing the antibiotic resistance patterns of the isolated bacteria. A total of 155 bacterial isolates were identified from 10 genera according to the Vitek 2 system. The most common bacterial isolates from the clinical and environmental samples were Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, respectively. The antibiotic resistance patterns showed that all clinical and environmental isolates were multidrug resistant to β-lactam (except carbapenems) drug and aminoglycosides and more sensitive to carbapenems.

Enterobacteriaceae, Lactose Fermenters, Clinical, Environmental Samples

Jabbar Ibrahim, I. and Kareem Hameed, T. (2015) Isolation, Characterization and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Lactose-Fermenter Enterobacteriaceae Isolates from Clinical and Environmental Samples. Open Journal of Medical Microbiology, 5, 169-176. doi: 10.4236/ojmm.2015.54021.