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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.12.3.25</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profile of Clinical Isolates of Peptostreptococcus anaerobius</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ananth Shenoy</surname>
                        <given-names>Padmaja</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Lobo</surname>
                        <given-names>Stalin</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>

				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Shetty</surname>
                        <given-names>Seema</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>

				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Vishwanath</surname>
                        <given-names>Shashidhar</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>

				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Chawla</surname>
                        <given-names>Kiran</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>

                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India.</aff>
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-09-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>09</month>
                <year>2018</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>12</volume>
            <issue>3</issue>
            <fpage>1239</fpage>
            <lpage>1245</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2018 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/antimicrobial-susceptibility-profile-of-clinical-isolates-of-peptostreptococcus-anaerobius/
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            <abstract>
                <p>Gram-positive anaerobic cocci (GPAC) which are commonly known as Peptococci or
Peptostreptococci belong to the genus Peptostreptococcus. Peptostreptococcus anaerobius is
one of the most common GPAC known to be associated with infections of the abdominal cavity
and the female genitourinary tract. The present study aims at determining the antimicrobial
susceptibility profile of P. anaerobius isolates against various antimicrobials. This study was
conducted over a period of three years from January 2015 to December 2017 in the Department
of Microbiology of a tertiary care teaching hospital. Specimens like pus aspirates, soft tissue
and body fluids were included in the study. P. anaerobius isolates were identified by standard
methods and confirmed by automated mass spectrometry. Minimum inhibitory concentration
was determined by the reference agar dilution method for different anti-anaerobic agents. A total
of 30 P. anaerobius isolates were obtained from various infections with majority (n=21, 70%)
of the isolates being recovered from infections of the anatomical sites below the waistline. All
isolates showed excellent anti-anaerobic activity against metronidazole, penicillin G, cefoxitin
and chloramphenicol. Clindamycin resistance was noted in 53.3% (n=16) of P. anaerobius
isolates. None of the isolates were b-lactamase producers. Metronidazole which is considered
as the empirical therapy of choice for anaerobic infections was found to have excellent activity.
Significant resistance was noted towards clindamycin which is commonly used as an alternative
to metronidazole in suspected anaerobic infections. Routine sensitivity testing of clinical isolates
of anaerobes seems to be the need of the hour for effective patient management.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Agar dilution</kwd>
        <kwd>Clindamycin</kwd>
			<kwd>Metronidazole</kwd>
			<kwd>Peptostreptococcus</kwd>
			<kwd>Resistance</kwd>
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