TY - JOUR AU - Ali, Eman Abdo AU - Alshuaibi, Omniat N. M. AU - Ali, Khaled Saeed PY - 2021/03/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - EVALUATION OF SOME ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ISOLATED BY MEDICAL LABORATORIES ADEN, YEMEN JF - Electronic Journal of University of Aden for Basic and Applied Sciences JA - Electron. J. Univ. Aden Basic Appl. Sci. VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.47372/ejua-ba.2021.1.89 UR - https://ejua.net/index.php/EJUA-BA/article/view/89 SP - 49-53 AB - <p>The study was carried out to determine antibacterial resistance profiles of methicillin-resistant <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>(MRSA) isolates from clinical samples of patients during the duration, from January 2019 to July 2020 in five governmental and private medical laboratories of Aden governorate, Yemen. A total of 267 MRSA isolates were tested with a disc diffusion method from 4 clinical specimens. The isolates were examined for methicillin resistance using vancomycin, erythromycin, amikacin, and gentamicin.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The results revealed a large number of MRSA isolates showed resistance to erythromycin (43.5%) and Vancomycin (28%). A lower number of MRSA isolates showed resistance to amikacin (6.25%), gentamicin (11.75%). A majority of MRSA isolates were from urine specimen (162) followed by (56) wounds, (34) pus, and (25) semen specimens. The highest proportion of MRSA isolates were obtained from Al-medina medical laboratory (31%) and Alborg laboratory (24%).</p> ER -