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 |
Biofilms associated with indwelling medical devices are a major public health concern now-a-days as they are difficult to treat with the routine antibiotics. So the present study was taken up to study the biofilm producing phenotype and antimicrobial resistance pattern of pathogens in patients with catheter associate urinary tract infection (CAUTI). Method: this prospective study with 50 urine samples from catheterized patients (indwelling urinary catheter of more than 48 hrs) was carried out over a period of three months. Isolation and identification of the organism was followed by detection of biofilm phenotype by the tissue culture plate method. The results were analysed using SSPS 22.0 software. The most common organism isolated was E. coli (54%), followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (16%). Among the total isolates, 31 (62%) were positive for the biofilm phenotype. Biofilm producing strains showed relatively higher antibiotic resistance than non-producers. 71% of the biofilm producers were multidrug resistant. Our study showed a significant association between biofilm production and multidrug resistant.
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