Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://localhost:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/14413
Title: PAEDIATRIC NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS: RESISTANCE PATTERN OF CLINICAL ISOLATES
Authors: NAEEM M, IYAD
NAQVI, BAQIR S
HASHMI, KHURSHEED
GAUHAR, SHAHNAZ
Keywords: Nosocomial
antimicrobics
resistance
pediatric
Issue Date: 11-Jan-2006
Publisher: Karachi: Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Karachi
Citation: Naeem, I., Naqvi, B. S., Hashmi, K., & Gauhar, S. (2006). Paediatric nosocomial infections: resistance pattern of clinical isolates. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 19(1), 52-57.
Abstract: Hospital acquired infections are transmitted to patients by hospital personnel and other patients, or they may arise from patient’s own endogenous flora. Children are one of the most susceptible subjects associated in the hospitalacquired infections and have a higher prevalence rate for infections. This problem is at its extremes in developing countries like Pakistan where in most of cases the severity depends on the hygienic conditions of the Hospitals and lack or lapse of infection control measures. To have a surveillance type of data in this regard, one hundred and twenty four isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa/Pseudomonas species, Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA/MSSA) and Klebsiella species, that are commonest among the nosocomial infection causing organisms, were collected from pediatric hospital settings in Karachi. A study of incidence and resistance pattern by Kirby Baur disc diffusion method, with selected antimicrobials, was carried out. These isolates were resistant against most antimicrobials tested. Drugs like mmipenem, meropenem, amikacin, vancomycin (especially in MRSA or BRSA), Fucidic acid (for burns and other infections) and some of the 3rd generation cephalosporins were found quite effective.
URI: http://142.54.178.187:9060/xmlui/handle/123456789/14413
ISSN: 1011-601X
Appears in Collections:2006,Part-1

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
Paper-11.htm143 BHTMLView/Open


Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.