ABSTRACT
To determine antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care setting. Descriptive study. Microbiology Department, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi from March 2011 to April 2012. Two hundred isolates of MRSA recovered from various clinical specimens sent to AFIP for culture and sensitivity were identified using standard microbiological techniques and the antimicrobial susceptibility was carried out employing Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion technique as recommended by Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. The Susceptibility pattern of isolates was recorded in percentages. Of the 200 MRSA isolated, all[100%] were susceptiblr to vancomycin and Linezolid followed by 88% to tigecycline, 81% to chloramphenicol, 66% to amikacin, 62.5% to clindamycin, 52.5% to doxycycline, 36% to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, 29% to gentamicin, 28.5% to erythromycin and 26.5% to ciprofloxacin. The results show that linezolid and vacomycin hold excellent in vitro efficacy against MRSA whereas doxycyline, clindamycin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, gentamicin, erthromycin and ciprofloxacin have poor sensitivity.