PREVALENCE OF MRSA IN VARIOUS CLINICAL SAMPLES AND THEIR ANTIBIOGRAM FROM A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF NORTH KERALA

SYED MUSTAQ AHMED¹*, K.S. SONIYA², RAJEEVAN SUMITA³, K.K. AMEENA⁴, ANN TAISY GEORGE⁵, M.B. DIVYA^6
1Department of Microbiology, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kolathur, Kerala 679338
²Department of Microbiology, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kolathur, Kerala 679338
³Department of Microbiology, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kolathur, Kerala 679338
⁴Department of Microbiology, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kolathur, Kerala 679338
⁵Department of Microbiology, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kolathur, Kerala 679338
⁶Department of Microbiology, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kolathur, Kerala 679338
* Corresponding Author : syedmustaq35@gmail.com

Received : 28-02-2017     Accepted : 04-03-2017     Published : 28-03-2017
Volume : 9     Issue : 3       Pages : 869 - 871
Int J Microbiol Res 9.3 (2017):869-871

Keywords : Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA (methicillin resistance Staphylococcus aures), Antibiogram
Academic Editor : Hatkar Sunil Sonu, Ranjana Hawaldar, Dr Achhelal R. Pasi
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author are thankful to Department of Microbiology, MES Medical College, Perinthalmanna, Kolathur, Kerala 679338
Author Contribution : Syed Mustaq Ahmed: Professor, Department of Microbiology, MES Medical college

Multidrug resistant bacterial strains are posing a lot of difficulties for the treating physician and also mounting to huge economic burden on the patient and hospitals Among them MRSA is one of the important pathogen. Material & methods: Samples collected from various department of our hospital as per the standard protocol were processed in our lab. S. aureus isolates, were screened for Methicillin resistance by cefoxitin disc and susceptibility testing was performed by Kirby Bauer disk diffusion method as per the CLSI guidelines. Out of the 953 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus 300 (31.4%) isolates were MRSA sample wise highest isolation of MRSA was from blood 32.56% and pus 32.52% sex wise 165 (55%) from males, department wise from Surgical wards 134(44.6%)and among the antimicrobials tested linezolid (0%), vancomycin(0%) showed the least resistance followed by amikacin 05%. Conclusion: MRSA is an important pathogen for nosocomial infections so studying prevalence of this pathogen in various clinical samples and screening for MRSA colonization in health care workers will help in hospital infection control practices. vancomycin ,linezolid were found to be highly effective.

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