Changing Bacterial Organisms and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern Among Hospitalized Community Acquired Pneumonia Patients in a Tertiary Care Center

Abstract

BACKGROUND:Most of the times a Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) patient is being treated with empirical antibiotics by best guess method by the clinician.MDR strains are being reported from c/s reports and Gram negative rods are fast increasing both in the etiology and mortality of CAP patients.