Antibiogram of Acute Diarrhea in under five children-a study of Central India

Dr. Madhurendra Rajput; Dr Vijay Tiwari

Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2019

Antibiogram of Acute Diarrhea in under five children-a study of Central India

Dr. Madhurendra Rajput, Dr Vijay Tiwari

Abstract :

Introduction: Dysentery accounts for a significant proportion of all diarrhea cases. India alone looses 0.6 million children each year due to diarrhea. Effective antimicrobial therapy can reduce both the duration and severity of dysentery. AIM: To study the antibiogram of acute diarrhea caused by aerobic bacteria in faecal samples of infants and children. Methodology: The present study of bacteriology is a hospital based descriptive, cross sectional study, on aerobic bacteria causing watery diarrhea (< 15 days) in infants>1 month and children under 5 years of age. Total 120 samples were processed for direct microscopy and culture growth for identification of enteropathogen. Organism identification and antibiogram of study population was analyzed (IBM SPSS version 21). Results: Among Escherichia coli isolates majority of the strains were sensitive to chloramphenicol (98.1%) amikacin (96.2%), gentamycin (92.4%) and cefotaxime (79.2%). Majority of Shigella strains (92.9%) were found to be sensitive to ciprofloxacin, gentamicin and amikacin. 50% of strains were resistant to amoxicillin and majority to nalidixic acid (57.1%).Among the salmonella sp. isolated, amikacin was sensitive in all cases, most of the strains were sensitive to ciprofloxacin (87.5%), Furazolidone (87.5%), gentamicin and chloramphenicol (62.5%). Conclusion: For future control of antimicrobial resistance, some degree of regulation of antimicrobial use is necessary, but obviously this regulation will require administrative and political commitment and support