Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2020

COMMON ORGANISMS ISOLATED IN INFECTED DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS AND CORRESPONDING DRUG SENSITIVITY AMONG THE COASTAL POPULATION OF SOUTH INDIA.

Dr Balasundaram, Dr B Sai Sujeeth Kumar, Dr Bharathidasan Rajamanikkam, Dr Karthik N, Dr G Ambujam

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India is considered to be Diabetic capital of the world with estimated amount of 57.2 million people getting affected with type 2 diabetes mellitus by 2025. Complications of diabetes mellitus like ulcerations and subsequent bacterial infections are leading cause of lower extremity amputations. Early diagnosis and timely management of such complications is necessary to avoid dreadful life threatening incidents. Due to delayed presentation most of the diabetes related complications were left undiagnosed in early stages. Hence treating the diabetic foot infections with appropriate empirical antibiotics and having a prior knowledge of microbial population of corresponding geographical area and their antimicrobial sensitivity has become mandatory. Our current study involving 98 diabetic foot infections patients with diabetic history more than one year. We found out that most common gram positive organism isolated is MRSA and gram negative organism being E.coli but most of the isolates were found out to be polymicrobial hence there is a need of multi drug approach in current scenario.

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COMMON ORGANISMS ISOLATED IN INFECTED DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS AND CORRESPONDING DRUG SENSITIVITY AMONG THE COASTAL POPULATION OF SOUTH INDIA., Dr Balasundaram, Dr B Sai Sujeeth Kumar, Dr Bharathidasan Rajamanikkam, Dr Karthik N, Dr G Ambujam INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-8 | August-2020

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