scholarly journals Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns: Review of the Antibiogram of a Surgical Unit in a Public Tertiary Care Hospital of Pakistan

Cureus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Usama Muhammad Kathia ◽  
Talha Munir ◽  
Fatima Fateh ◽  
Adeel Ahmad ◽  
Awais Amjad ◽  
...  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishnappa Lakshmana Gowda ◽  
Mohammed A. M. Marie ◽  
Yazeed A Al-Sheikh ◽  
James John ◽  
Sangeetha Gopalkrishnan ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijayalaxmi V Mogasale ◽  
Prakash Saldanha ◽  
Vidya Pai ◽  
Rekha PD ◽  
Vittal Mogasale

Abstract Background There is global consensus that Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) poses an unprecedented challenge to modern medicine as we know it today; and the lack of new antibiotics in the pipeline is compounding the threat to contain emerging drug-resistant infections. In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) has articulated a priority pathogens list (PPL) to provide strategic direction to research and development of new anti-microbials. Anti-microbial resistance patterns of selected ‘drug-bug’ combinations based on the WHO-PPL in one tertiary health care facility in India are explored in this paper. Methods Culture reports of laboratory specimens, collected between 1st January 2014 and 31st October 2019 from paediatric patients in a tertiary care hospital in India, were retrospectively extracted. The antimicrobial susceptibility patterns for selected antimicrobials based on the WHO-PPL are analysed and reported. Results Of 12,256 culture specimens screened, 2,335 (19%) showed culture positivity; of which 1,556 were organisms from the WHO-PPL. E. coli was the most common organism isolated (37%) followed by Staphylococcus aureus (16%). Total 72% of E. coli were extended-spectrum beta-lactamases producers, 55% of Enterobacteriaceae were resistant to 3rd generation cephalosporins, and 53% of Staphylococcus aureus were Methicillin resistant. Time-trend analysis of the data showed continued high resistance to carbapenem in E coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae. Conclusions The AMR trends and prevalence patterns are likely to be different, across various local settings, than as defined at the national level or the WHO-PPL. This difference needs to be recognised in decision and policy making. It is critical, that the evidence used at national and global levels, have reasonable geographical and population representation through standardised and more granular AMR surveillance, in order to improve the effectiveness of the overall national AMR response.


Author(s):  
Shivani Dogra ◽  
Archana Angrup ◽  
Rimjhim Kanaujia ◽  
Shashi Vig ◽  
Rupinder Kaur ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Md Mahbubur Rahman ◽  
Osul Ahmed Chowdhury ◽  
Md Moynul Hoque ◽  
Syed Anwarul Hoque ◽  
Sultana Mehnaz Rahman Chowdhury ◽  
...  

The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance in major uropathogens has created a global threat especially in the developing countries. In Bangladesh, prescribers of different regions generally diagnose microbial infection on clinical judgment and select antimicrobial on empirical basis, which unfavorably affects the sensitivity pattern of microbes. The present study was designed to determine the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella species isolated from patients with UTI in a tertiary care hospital. This was a cross sectional study conducted at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, Sylhet from 1st January to 31st December 2016. A total of 200 clinically suspected urinary tract infection patients aged 16-85 years were included in this study. The isolated Escherichia coli and Klebsiella species were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility according to the guideline of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) 2011 using the modified Kirby- Bauer disc diffusion technique. Out of 107 pus cell positive ( 05/HPF) urine samples, 75 (70.1%) yielded significant bacteriuria of which 49 (65.3%) were Escherichia coli and 9 (12%) were Klebsiella species. The isolated Escherichia coli showed absolutely high resistance to ampicillin and cefuroxime (100%), moderately high resistance to ceftazidime (81.6%), ciprofloxacin (77.6%), cotrimoxazole (75.5%), cefotaxime (67.4%) and ceftriaxone (59.2%), moderate rate of resistance to amikacin 48.9% and imipenem 46.9% and least rate of resistance to gentamicin (22.5%), nitrofurantion (22.5%) and netilmicin (6.1%). In addition, Klebsiella species revealed completely resistance to ampicillin, cotrimoxazole, cefuroxime, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime (100%), moderately high resistance to imipenem (88.9%), nitrofurantoin (77.8%), moderate resistance to ciprofloxacin (44.4%), amikacin (33.3%) and gentamicin (33.3%) and least resistance to netilmicin (11.1%). Hence very high resistance rates of 1st line drugs found in uropathigenic Escherichia coli & Klebsiella species, it is necessary to diagnose clinically followed by culture and sensitivity testing. Regular antibiotic surveillance of a particular geographical area is required to establish reliable information regarding susceptibility pattern of uropathogens in order to preserve the continued usefulness of most antimicrobial agents.Medicine Today 2018 Vol.30(2): 61-66


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