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Acinetobacter infections prevalence and frequency of the antibiotics resistance: comparative study of intensive care units versus other hospital units
- Source :
- Pan African Medical Journal; Vol 23, No 1 (2016), The Pan African Medical Journal, The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 23, Iss 191 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- African Field Epidemiology Network, 2016.
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Abstract
- Introduction: This study aims to determine the Acinetobacter sp clinical isolates frequency and its antibiotic susceptibility pattern by comparing results obtained from the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) to that of other units at the Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital in Rabat. Methods: This is a retrospective study over a 2-years period where we collected all clinical isolates of Acinetobacter sp obtained from samples for infection diagnosis performed on hospitalized patients between 2012 to 2014. Results: During the study period, 441 clinical and non-repetitive isolates of Acinetobacter sp were collected representing 6.94% of all bacterial clinical isolates (n=6352) and 9.6% of Gram negative rods (n=4569). More than a half of the isolates were from the ICUs and were obtained from 293 infected patients of which 65, 2% (191 cases) were males (sex ratio = 1.9) and the median age was 56 years (interquartile range: 42-68 years). Acinetobacter clinical isolates were obtained from respiratory samples (44.67%) followed by blood cultures (14.51%). The resistance to ciprofloxacin, ceftazidime, piperacillin / tazobactam, imipenem, amikacin, tobramycin, netilmicin, rifampicin and colistin was respectively 87%, 86%, 79%, 76%; 52%, 43%, 33% 32% and 1.7%. The difference in resistance between the ICUs and the other units was statistically significant (p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Imipenem
Adolescent
prevalence
030106 microbiology
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Hospitals, Military
Tazobactam
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Internal medicine
Intensive care
medicine
Humans
Hospitals, Teaching
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
lcsh:R5-920
Acinetobacter
biology
business.industry
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Research
lcsh:RA1-1270
General Medicine
Middle Aged
biology.organism_classification
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Surgery
Intensive Care Units
Morocco
Amikacin
Colistin
Female
Netilmicin
lcsh:Medicine (General)
business
Hospital Units
antibiotic resistance intensive care units
Acinetobacter Infections
medicine.drug
Piperacillin
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19378688
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pan African Medical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....acfedc5a52c9ef1feffa7d77337e06cd