DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i11.040

Pages: 4512-4516

Wound infections are the most serious cause of mortality and morbidity. Wound infection results whenever there is a breach in skins epithelium exposing subcutaneous tissue making easy way for micro-organisms to enter and cause infection. In this study a total of 242 wound swab samples were collected from patients and subjected for antibiotic susceptibility testing. Among them most common organism isolated was Kleibsella, followed by S. aureus, Pseudomonas, E.coli, Proteus, CONS, and Acinetobacter species. The most sensitive antibiotics against gram positive bacterial isolates were penicillin, cefoxitin, linezolid, vancomycin, cotrimoxazole, gram negative bacterial isolates were sensitive to meropenem, piperacillin tazobactam, amikacin, gentamicin, imipenem, colistin. Knowledge about bacteriological profile of wound infections and sensitivity pattern will guide medical practitioners in appropriate selection of antibiotics and thereby to prevent complications.