Prevalence and Recent Trend in the Antibiogram of Staphylococcus Species Isolated from Clinical Specimens in a Rural Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Thomas, Ruby; Shilpa, K; Ramyashree, Allavarapu

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2016.512.071

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“…The S. aureus and MRSA colonisation rate is much less compared to other studies (Kaur and Narayan, 2014;Agarwal et al, 2015;Mathanraj et al, 2009) in India which could be because of the low local prevalence of MRSA in rural area, which was estimated to be only 5.03% (MRSA infection rate) in a recent study conducted by Thomas et al, (2016) in the same hospital in 2015-2016. The prevalence was probably more in nurses from the wards as they are the personnel closely associated with infected patients.…”

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A Prospective Study Estimating the Mupirocin Resistance in Health Care Providers with MRSA Nasal Carriage in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Rural South India

Sangeetha¹,

Sreeja²,

Thomas³

2018

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A Prospective Study Estimating the Mupirocin Resistance in Health Care Providers with MRSA Nasal Carriage in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Rural South India

Sangeetha¹,

Sreeja²,

Thomas³

2018

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Multi-drug resistance traits of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other Staphylococcal species from clinical and environmental sources

Oladipo

Bezuidenhout

2019

Journal of Water and Health

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Multi-drug resistance traits of Staphylococcus species especially methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the clinical settings are well established. Of environmental concern is hospital effluents discharging into wastewaters. This article investigated the prevalence and detection of antibiotic resistance genes in Staphylococcus species from clinical and environmental sources in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Standard culture-based and molecular protocols were used. Seventy-six (27 clinical, 14 hospital effluent and 35 environmental) Staphylococcus isolates were recovered: 56.58% were coagulase-negative and 43.42% coagulase-positive (S. aureus). For the clinical isolates, 10, 6, 4, 4 and 1 were isolated from urine, skin, wounds, blood and pus, respectively. Isolates were resistant to methicillin and amoxycillin (91.7%), cloxacillin (88.0%), ciprofloxacin (84.0%), ofloxacin (83.3%), azithromycin (78.0%), ceftazidime (76.0%), gentamycin (75.0%), cefuroxime (75.0%) and erythromycin (72.0%). Nearly, all isolates (90.8%) had multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) index >0.2. Overall MAR indices for Staphylococcus species isolated from the clinical, hospital effluent and environmental wastewaters were relatively similar (0.482; 0.500; 0.435). mecA, nuc and luk-pvl genes were detected in S. aureus, while mecA was detected in S. arlettae, S. sciuri, S. cohnii, S. epidermidis and S. saprophyticus. This study informs on the potential contamination of environmental waters downstream from hospitals and possible impacts that this could have on human and animal health.

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Prevalence and Recent Trend in the Antibiogram of Staphylococcus Species Isolated from Clinical Specimens in a Rural Tertiary Care Hospital in South India

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

A Prospective Study Estimating the Mupirocin Resistance in Health Care Providers with MRSA Nasal Carriage in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Rural South India

A Prospective Study Estimating the Mupirocin Resistance in Health Care Providers with MRSA Nasal Carriage in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Rural South India

Multi-drug resistance traits of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other Staphylococcal species from clinical and environmental sources

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