Phagetherapies for infections caused by multi-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
International Conference and Exhibition on Biochemical & Molecular Engineering
October 07-08, 2013 Hilton San Antonio Airport, TX, USA

Ricardo Ferraz, Ana Reis, Cristina Prudncio, Pilar Baylina and Rben Fernandes

Accepted Abstracts: Biochem Anal Biochem

Abstract:

The hospital infections can be prevented by controlling some factors related with staff, material, and environment. At this moment the existing legislation regulates procedures that prevent the propagation of the infection and/or of the agents that causes it. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative opportunistic responsible for most of the hospital infections. Because it is opportunistic it is more frequent in immunocompromised patients submitted to transplants and surgical interventions. In short, this thesis has contributed for the understanding of the biology of P. aeruginosa , antibacterial treatment and its resistance to this treatment by using efflux bombs, and so as establishing associations with others factors, such as biochemical. This study has the objective to understand the resistance factors used by the P. aeruginosa in order to develop alternative therapies for this agent. Initially, 72 hospitalar isolated were characterized and 91.67% have revealed more than 3 classes of Antimicrobians.

Biography :

Ricardo Ferraz is a teacher at School of Allied Health Sciences, Porto Polytechnic, Porto. He graduated in Chemistry in 2002 and received his Master degree in 2006 at Faculdade de Cincias da Universidade do Porto. At the moment he is finishing his Ph.D. at Faculdade de Cincias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa under the Supervision of Cristina Prudncio, Joo Paulo Noronha and Zeljko Petrovski. His thesis is focused on the development of new ionic liquids as active pharmaceutical ingredients.