National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are very common in clinical settings and many organisms are ground to be multi-drug resistant. Therefore, analyzing antibiotic susceptibility patterns will not only help in therapeutic difficulties but also decrease the indiscriminate use of antibiotics which are causing the development of MDR. Bacterial Isolates with a colony count of more than 10 5/ml were included in the study. The uropathogens were isolated using Urochrome UTI agar and MacConkey agar. Identification was done by standard biochemical reactions and then subjected to antibiotic susceptibility testing against 18 antibiotics of different classes using Kirby-Bauer's disc diffusion method. Out of a total of n=4385 urine samples processed 974 (22.2%) were found to have significant bacteriuria and n=3413(77.8%) were found to be negative. Gram-negative bacteria were found to be 78.7% while gram-positive cocci accounted for the remaining 21.3 % of the total pathogens, E. coli (54%), Enterococcus spp (18%), K. pneumoniae (15%). Regular monitoring and surveillance is the need of the hour given the constantly rising drug resistance. It is necessary to make a local antibiogram about the hospital environment in discussion with the physicians to provide an updated and effective empirical treatment of UTIs.
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