Isolation And Antibiotics Susceptibility Patterns  Of Acinetobacterbaumannii From Various  Clinical Samples In Tertiary Care Hospital,  Jamnagar , Gujarat.

Dr. Hiral; Dr. Viral; Dr. Hiral G; Dr. Neetu; Dr. Hitesh Singala; Mala

Volume : I, Issue : III, August - 2012

Isolation And Antibiotics Susceptibility Patterns Of Acinetobacterbaumannii From Various Clinical Samples In Tertiary Care Hospital, Jamnagar , Gujarat.

Dr. Hiral, Dr. Viral, Dr. Hiral G, Dr. Neetu, Dr. Hitesh Singala, Mala

Abstract :

New organisms have attained an increasingly greater attention of microbiologist and clinicians. Acinetobacter baumannii is known to have more importance because of their role in wide spectrum of nosocomial infections like; Bacteremia, Ventilation associated pneumonia, UTI, wound infections, secondary meningitis etc. Antimicrobial resistance studies are world-wide necessity to assist local physicians in prescribing empirical therapy. In this study various clinical samples like Pus, Blood, Urine and Endotracheal tube secretion were plated on MacConkey agar and Blood agar plates. Acinetobacter baumannii were detected on basis of pale colony on MacConkey agar, Gram negative coccobacilli on smear, Non-motile, Oxides negative, non glucose fermenter in Hugh & leifson test (O-F test) and growth at 37c and 44c. A total of 123 strains of A. baumannii from total 4033 positive samples (3.05%) were isolated. Antibiogram results to 12 antimicrobials showed that A. baumannii is maximum sensitive to Imipenem(84%) which is followed by Ciprofloxacin(70%), Ticarcillin-clavulanate(66%), Amikacin(62%), Toamycin(61%), Netilmycin(58%), Piperacilin(53%), Gentamicin(44%), Ceftazidime(43%), Cefotaxime(36%), Cefoperazone(33%) and least sensitive to Cefepime (27%) .