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ArticleBMC research notes2021

A retrospective cross-sectional survey on nosocomial bacterial infections and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in hospitalized patients in northwest of Iran.

Hamid Sadeghi, Saeideh Gholamzadeh Khoei, Mehdi Bakht, Mohammad Rostamani, Sara Rahimi, Mehdi Ghaemi, Bahman Mirzaei

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Hamid SadeghiDepartment of Microbiology and Virology, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Saeideh Gholamzadeh KhoeiMolecular Medicine Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Mehdi BakhtDepartment of Microbiology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
Mohammad RostamaniDepartment of Microbiology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
Sara RahimiDepartment of Microbiology, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.
Mehdi GhaemiDepartment of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Bahman MirzaeiDepartment of Microbiology and Virology, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. dr.bahman.m@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4678-7825
Qazvin University of Medical Sciences · IRZanjan University of Medical Sciences · IRHamedan University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveNosocomial infections (NIs) are known as one of the remarkable problems in all countries. This study is aimed to estimate the prevalence rate of nosocomial bacterial agents with antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in hospitalized patients. This study was conducted from April 2017 to September 2018, on 4029 hospitalized patients. We set out to recognize the commonest bacterial infections and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of nosocomial infection.

resultsOf the 4029 patients, 509 (12.6%) of them were culture positive. Of these Escherichia coli (E. coli) (98.3%) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) (37.5%) were the most abundant bacterial identified in the urinary tract and bloodstream cultures respectively, Moreover, Acinetobacter spp. (100%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (22.2%) were the most abundant organisms detected in the respiratory system. According to susceptibility testing results, 370 (80.5%) and 264 (57.3%) in Gram-negatives and 44 (91.7%) and 35 (72.9%) in gram positives isolated strains were classified as multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensive drug-resistant (XDR) strain respectively. On account of the high prevalence of MDR and XDR bacterial species, there is a pressing need for the expansion of new strategies on antibiotic supervision and infection control to introduce new guideline on empirical antibiotic therapy.

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Bacterial InfectionsCross InfectionAnti-Bacterial AgentsCross-Sectional StudiesDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialEscherichia coliHumansIranMicrobial Sensitivity TestsRetrospective StudiesAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial isolatesExtensively-drug resistant (XDR)Multi-drug resistant (MDR)Nosocomial infectionsSusceptibility patterns

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