Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Species distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of gram-negative aerobic bacteria in hospitalized cancer patients | Journal of Translational Medicine BioMed Central Research Species distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of gram-negative aerobic bacteria in hospitalized cancer patients Hossam M Ashour 1 and Amany El-Sharif2 Open Access Address Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty of Pharmacy Cairo University Cairo Egypt and 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty of Pharmacy Al-Azhar University Cairo Egypt Email Hossam M Ashour - hossamking@ Amany El-Sharif - amanyelsharif@ Corresponding author Published 19 February 2009 Received 21 January 2009 __ -T-mno I lo iiA-ra cmi 1 IA Accepted 19 February 2009 Journal of Translational Medicine 2009 7 14 doi l479-5876-7-l4 This article is available from http content 7 l l4 2009 Ashour and El-Sharif licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Nosocomial infections pose significant threats to hospitalized patients especially the immunocompromised ones such as cancer patients. Methods This study examined the microbial spectrum of gram-negative bacteria in various infection sites in patients with leukemia and solid tumors. The antimicrobial resistance patterns of the isolated bacteria were studied. Results The most frequently isolated gram-negative bacteria were Klebsiella pneumonia followed by Escherichia coli . We report the isolation and identification of a number of less-frequent gram negative bacteria Chromobacterium violacum Burkholderia cepacia Kluyvera ascorbata Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Salmonella arizona . Most of the gramnegative isolates from Respiratory Tract Infections RTI Gastro-intestinal Tract Infections GITI Urinary