TY - JOUR AU - Soma, Layla Jafrin AU - Shahriar, Mohammad AU - Narjish, Syeda Najah AU - Bhuiyan, Mohiuddin Ahmed PY - 2015/02/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Antimicrobial resistance pattern of Bacteria isolated from ICU patients with respiratory tract infections JF - Dhaka University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences JA - Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.3329/dujps.v13i2.21900 UR - https://banglajol.info/index.php/JPharma/article/view/21900 SP - 193-197 AB - <p>A total of 58 samples of respiratory tract infection (RTI) patients were collected from intensive care unit of three Dhaka based hospitals namely National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital (NIDCH), City Hospital (CH) and Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital (JBFH). Out of 58 samples studied, 47 (81.03%) samples showed growth of organisms identified as <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>(n=24, 51.06%), <em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa </em>(n=9, 19.15%), <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae </em>(n=7, 14.89%), <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae </em>(n<em>=</em>3, 6.38%)<em>, Escherichia coli </em>(n=2, 4.26%)<em>, Citrobacter </em>(n<em>=</em>1, 2.13%) and <em>Shigella </em>(n<em>=</em>1, 2.13%). Most of the isolates were found resistant to piperacillin/tazobactam. All the isolates of <em>S. pneumoniae </em>(n=3), <em>P. aeruginosa </em>(n=9), <em>K. pneumoniae </em>(n=7), <em>E. coli </em>(n=2), <em>Citrobacter </em>(n=1)<em>, and Shigella </em>(n=1) showed 100% resistance to piperacillin. <em>S. aureus </em>showed 79.17% resistance to piperacillin. Most of the isolates were 100% sensitive to imipenem, whereas <em>S. aureus </em>was only 91.67% sensitive to it.</p> <p>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/dujps.v13i2.21900">http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/dujps.v13i2.21900</a></p> <p>Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. 13(2): 193-197, 2014 (December)</p> ER -