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Prevalence and Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern of Staphylococcus Aureus in Clinical Specimens

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: The present study was carried out to determine the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus in clinical samples and their susceptibility pattern to antibiotics.Standard microbiological and biochemical methods were used to screen 155 clinical specimens comprising of sputum, wound, urine and high vaginal swabs for S .aureus.Twenty eight (28) isolates was obtained from these samples.Antibiotic susceptibility results shows high percentage of sensitivity to gentamicin (89%,) azithromycin (89%), pefloxacin (79%) followed by erythromycin (68%) ciprofloxacin (61%) streptomycin (61%)and sparfloxacin (54%).A high resistance was recorded for cotrimaxazole (90%), amoxycillin (88%), ampicillin (73%), tetracycline (65%), cefuroxime and cephalexin (40%) each.

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Authors: Bolanle Opere, Muibat Omotola Fashola, Solayide A. Adesida, Stella I. Smith, Oluwaseun A. Adebiyi

Language: English

Topic: Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1599437052

FWCI: 0.454

Cites: 26

Cited by: 2

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