Microbial Culture from Various Specimens of Adult Sepsis Patients
Journal Title: Indonesian Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
This study aimed to provide information about pattern of microbial culture from the isolate adult sepsis patients that beneficial in identifying pathogen and antibiotics selection in septic patients. Observational prospective study from September–November 2008 was carried out in ward of internal mediciene at an Public Hospital, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The population study were adult sepsis patients that hospitalized in research period. The criteria of subject population were sepsis adults patients aged 15–60 years that hospitalizad in research period. As many as 42 patients that found as septic patient, there were twenty six patients included as a subject population. As many as 22 patients get the microbial culture treatment wtih 46 episode microbial culture from the various specimens, i.e blood (27), pus (5), urine (4), sputum (3), pleura fluid (1), throat swab (1), ulcus swab (1) and not identified (4). Culture test showed that 16 (34,8%) culture test was positive results and 30 (66,2%) was negative results. There were Staphylococcus coagulase negative, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumonia, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, Streptococcus alfa. Staphylococcus coagulase negative organism that detected in culture test from various specimens. Staphylococcus coagulase negative is the common organism which detected from the specimens of sepsis patients.
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Ivan S. Pradipta
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