DANGER IN THE BLOOD” BSI AND CURRENT TREND IN ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

Abstract

It’s a leading cause of death. It’s a major source of health care costs, adding days or
weeks to the hospital stays, no one fully understands how best to fight it. Bacteremia may
be self limiting or life threatening. So, correct and accurate antibiotics to be employed to
understand the common pathogens and their resistance pattern time -to-time. The
present study was undertaken to know the pathogens causing Blood stream infections
and incidence of multidrug resistance (MDR). Altogether 776 blood samples were
investigated during the working period between January to December, 2012 at
microbiology laboratory, ASRAM hospital, Eluru. A total of 191 (24.6 %) blood samples
were found to be culture positive. CoNS (50 %) were the predominant isolate, followed
by Staphylococcus aureus (44.56 %) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (38.38 %). Analysis of
the samples showed that Bacteremia was common in males when compared to females.
Antimicrobial drug resistance is a major problem in India. During the last few years a lot of
attention was being paid to microbial resistance. There have been many debates but the
outcomes are negative. This study shows that a good percentage of people were infested
by multi-drug resistant bacterial agents.