PROFILE OF ACINETOBACTER SPECIES IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN MEERUT CITY
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: Acinetobacter are the superbugs of the hospital environment causing nosocomial infections with high mortality rates. Acinetobacter infections are often extremely difficult to treat because of their widespread resistance to antibiotics. Aims & Objectives: i) To study the frequency of isolation of Acinetobacter species from clinical samples. ii) To identify the isolates of Acinetobacter upto species level. iii) To determine the in-vitro antimicrobial susceptibility of the isolates. Methods: A total of 11955 clinical samples were processed and isolates were identified as per standard bacteriological techniques. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was done by Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method as per CLSI guidelines 2017. Result: The frequency of isolation of Acinetobacter species was 4.16% (498/11955), out of which 87.75% isolates were of Acinetobacter baumannii and the remaining 12.25% isolates were of Acinetobacter lwoffii. Isolation of Acinetobacter species was most common from pus samples (25.30%) and majority of the isolates were from ICUs (46%) indicating increased hospital acquired infections. Conclusions: Acinetobacter infections has become a common drug resistant threat in hospital acquired infections. A combined effort of continuous surveillance and infection control protocols have to be implemented to control the increasing incidence of highly resistant Acinetobacter species.
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Ankur Vashishtha, Vandana Sardana, Anita Pandey
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