1Research Scholar, Bharath University, Chennai, India
2Department of Microbiology, Sri Venkateshwara Medical College and Research Center, Puducherry, India
3Department of Microbiology, Centre for Research, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Puducherry, India
*Corresponding author: SRIKUMAR R (PhD) Department of Microbiology, Centre for Research, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Puducherry, India, Tel: 9944961466 Email: kavimicro23@gmail.com
Online published on 8 March, 2019.
Antibiotic resistance is a worldwide phenomenon observed among clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. The increasing prevalence of Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) demands the availability of other essential antibiotics for the treatment. Our study is conducted to find out the various antibiotic susceptibility pattern observed among MRSA isolates.
Kirby Bauer disk diffusion method was performed on all the clinical isolates to determine the antibiotic susceptibility pattern and D test to identify the inducible clindamycin strains.
of the 573 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus spp, 191 (33.3%) were MRSA which showed maximum antibiotic resistance to erythromycin (60.2%) followed by cotrimoxazole (19.4%) and ciprofloxacin (14.7%). Inducible clindamycin was found to be 24.6% among MRSA isolates.
Monitoring of the antibiotic resistance and sensitivity pattern is essential for the effective disease management and complete recovery from the disease.
D test, Kirby Bauer disk diffusion method, Staphylococcus aureus
