DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i08.002

Pages: 2955-2959

India has one of the highest burdens of bacterial diseases in the world and thus, antibiotics have a significant role in reducing mortality and morbidity in the country. Area specific studies are required in monitoring the trend of type of pathogens and their sensitivity pattern in systemic infection. This study gives an account of isolation of bacterial pathogens from various clinical specimens and their antibiogram, in this geographical area of North East India. Various clinical samples like urine, sputum, body fluids, pus and blood sent to Microbiology laboratory were processed for isolation of the organisms and subsequent antibiotic susceptibility test. A total of 154 patients participated in the study, of which 113(73.4%) samples were culture positive. Female patients were significantly higher than males. The mean age has been calculated to be 55.2 years with standard deviation of 18.46. The culture proven cases of urinary tract infection were 69 (61.1%), followed by lower respiratory tract infection to be 49 (43.4%).