Background: Enterococci were once thought to be less virulent in healthy people, but they have recently emerged as important opportunistic pathogens, particularly in hospitalised patients, due to their ability to colonise the gastrointestinal tract for long periods of time, which is a key factor in drug resistance development and has become a major treatment roadblock.
The goal of this study was to identify the Enterococci species isolated from various clinical samples. 2. To determine Enterococci species’ antibiotic susceptibility patterns.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at a private tertiary care hospital in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district, using secondary data of Enterococcal species isolated from various clinical samples such as urine, blood, pus, sputum, and sterile body fluids that were kept in the Microbiology laboratory registers for a year from January 2014 to December 2014.
The majority (48.48 percent) of the 66 enterococcal isolates from diverse clinical samples were detected in urine, followed by pus (22 percent) (33.33 percent ). Females 34 had the highest prevalence of Enterococcus (51.51 percent ). The most frequent isolate was Enterococcus faecalis, which accounted for 56 (84.84 percent) of the total. All of the isolates were sensitive to Linezolid and Vancomycin. Penicillin resistance was the most common, accounting for 26 percent of all cases (76.47 percent ). Conclusion: Given the general trend of developing drug resistance and the presence of a diverse spectrum of Enterococcus species, continual antimicrobial resistance surveillance in enterococci is essential in order to offer appropriate therapy.
Author (S) Details
Trupti B. Naik
Department of Microbiology, Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Chamarajanagar, Karnataka, 571313, India.
Vijaykumar Mane
Department of Community Medicine, Koppal Institute of Medical Sciences, Koppal, Karnataka, 583231, India.
Amruthkishan K. Upadhya
Department of Microbiology, Subbaiah Institute of Medical Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka, 577201, India.
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