Bacterial pericarditis and antimicrobial resistance at the Tehran Heart Center, Iran | Zendy

Maryam Sotoudeh Anvari | Zendy; Rezvan Kianinejad | Zendy; Mohammad Ali Boroumand | Zendy; Soraya Arzhan | Zendy; Arash Jalali | Zendy

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Bacterial pericarditis and antimicrobial resistance at the Tehran Heart Center, Iran

Author(s) -

Maryam Sotoudeh Anvari,

Rezvan Kianinejad,

Mohammad Ali Boroumand,

Soraya Arzhan,

Arash Jalali

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.6027

Subject(s) - clindamycin , medicine , cefoxitin , staphylococcus epidermidis , microbiology and biotechnology , antimicrobial , ciprofloxacin , antibiotic resistance , antibiotics , staphylococcus aureus , biology , bacteria , genetics

When bacterial pericarditis is suspected, urgent pericardial drainage combined with intravenous antibacterial therapy is mandatory to avert devastating, life-threatening complications. There have been scanty results on antimicrobial susceptibility of common causative microorganisms of bacterial pericarditis; most studies had small sample sizes and were performed decades ago.

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