DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i05.056

Pages: 1968-1973

Foot infections are among the most common bacterial infections encountered in patients with diabetes mellitus in clinical practice. These infections and their sequelae are also the most common cause of disability and the reason for most hospital admissions among diabetic patients. The present study was a cross sectional study conducted in the Department of Microbiology in association with the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Orthopaedics, AIMSR, Bathinda, over a period of one year. Two sterile swabs were used to collect pus from each patient. One was used for direct microscopy by gram staining and other swab was used for culture onto MacConkey agar and Blood agar media. The following organism isolated were Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Proteus mirabilis. All gram positive organisms were found 100% sensitive to vancomycin and linezolid and maximum resistance was shown to erythromycin (67.50%) followed by penicillin G (57.50%). While gram negative organisms were found 100% sensitivity to colistin followed by polymyxin B (94.73%) and showed maximum resistance to ceftazidime (43.43%).