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Objective: To find out the common bacteria causing wound infections and their sensitivity pattern to different antibiotics
Study design: Cross-sectional study
Place and Duration of Study: Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur, from January 2014 to March 2014
Methodology: Patients with signs and symptoms of infected wounds were enrolled. Samples were collected by doctors in ward using commercially available sterile culture sticks after washing wound with saline to prevent surface contamination. The sample was sent to microbiology laboratory within one to two hours of sample collection. Culture and sensitivity pattern was performed in all the infected wounds. Data was analyzed manually and Chi square test was used to check the association of organisms with their antibiotic sensitivity pattern
Results: There were a total of sixty patients with infected wounds. Most common organism found in patients with infected wounds was Klebsiella [40%] followed by Pseudomonas [25%], Staphylococcus aureus and Echerichia coli, both 13.33%, and then Proteus [8.33%]. All these bacteria were resistant to most of the routinely used antibiotics
Conclusions: Most common bacteria cultured from infected wounds were Klebsiella and Pseudomonas. These were found sensitive to combination of cefoperazone and sulbactam, tazobactam and ciprofloxacin