Prevalence of aerobic bacterial flora among diabetic foot ulcer cases
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) is debilitating complication among diabetic patients. DFU with infection is also one of the major causes of hospitalization in diabetic patients. This study investigated the microbiology of diabetic foot infections and their susceptibility to antibiotics in patients admitted at wards and intensive care unit of Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital, Chidambaram. A retrospective analysis was conducted with clinical specimens taken from patients with DFI over a 5 months period from December 2014 to April 2015. A total of 50 patients, female 28 (56%) and male 22 (44%) with positive clinical specimens were identified. The most frequently isolated pathogens were Proteus spp. (40%) and the second most predominate bacteria encountered were Staphylococcus aureus (30%) followed by Klebisella spp. (16%), Escherichia coli (13%), Pseudomonas (7%), Streptococcus spp. (2%) and Bacillus spp. (2%). The antimicrobial susceptibility results showed that the gram negative organisms were highly susceptible to the most of the antibiotics used. All the Staphylococccus aureus isolates showed sensitive to methicillin, no MRSA strains were encountered among DFU patients in this study. Likewise, all the gram negative isolates were 100% sensitive to Imipenem. These findings have shown that there were no multiple drug resistance strains and MRSA strains.
Authors and Affiliations
K. Elakkiya, R. Suresh, G. Priyanka, C. Uma*, P. Sivagurunathan, M. Bhuvaneswari
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