A retrospective cross-sectional survey on nosocomial bacterial infections and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in hospitalized patients in northwest of Iran.
Hamid SadeghiSaeideh Gholamzadeh KhoeiMehdi BakhtMohammad RostamaniSara RahimiMehdi GhaemiBahman MirzaeiPublished in: BMC research notes (2021)
Of the 4029 patients, 509 (12.6%) of them were culture positive. Of these Escherichia coli (E. coli) (98.3%) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) (37.5%) were the most abundant bacterial identified in the urinary tract and bloodstream cultures respectively, Moreover, Acinetobacter spp. (100%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (22.2%) were the most abundant organisms detected in the respiratory system. According to susceptibility testing results, 370 (80.5%) and 264 (57.3%) in Gram-negatives and 44 (91.7%) and 35 (72.9%) in gram positives isolated strains were classified as multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensive drug-resistant (XDR) strain respectively. On account of the high prevalence of MDR and XDR bacterial species, there is a pressing need for the expansion of new strategies on antibiotic supervision and infection control to introduce new guideline on empirical antibiotic therapy.
Keyphrases
- multidrug resistant
- drug resistant
- gram negative
- acinetobacter baumannii
- escherichia coli
- biofilm formation
- klebsiella pneumoniae
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- end stage renal disease
- urinary tract
- chronic kidney disease
- staphylococcus aureus
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- peritoneal dialysis
- candida albicans
- prognostic factors
- cystic fibrosis
- mesenchymal stem cells
- cell therapy
- patient reported
- genetic diversity