Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Non–fermentative bacteria isolated from cases of ventilator– associated pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital.

Dr.Anindita Rakshit; Dr. Sutandro Choudhury

Volume : IX, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Non–fermentative bacteria isolated from cases of ventilator– associated pneumonia in a tertiary care hospital.

Dr. Anindita Rakshit, Dr. Sutandro Choudhury

Abstract :

OBJECTIVE: The study aims to detect the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of non–fermenters isolated from cases of Ventilator–Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in the Intensive Care Unit(ICU) of a tertiary care Hospital. MATERIALS AND METHOD: The study was conducted in the Department of Microbiology on 130 patients admitted in the Medicine ICU with clinical suspicion of VAP. RESULT: A large number of non–fermenters were multi–drug resistant. The highest sensitivity of both of these was towards the carbapenems( 66.7% in Acinetobacter spp and 88.9% in Pseudomonas aeruginosa) . These were also the predominant MDR(multi–drug resistant) pathogens isolated. CONCLUSION: Both the nonfermenters stood out to be most sensitive to the carbapenems,