National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Wound infection was the common consequence after cesarean section (CS) in pregnant women. High cost burden, longer duration of hospital stay, dissatisfaction of patient, morbidity, and mortality of the pregnant women are the common consequences of surgical site of wound infection. The aim of the present study is to determine the pattern of bacterial pathogens in wounds of Caesarean section in a tertiary care maternity and children hospital and to identify the antibiogram pattern of the bacterial isolates in wound infections of Caesarean section. This is a hospital based retrospective study conducted in the Department of Microbiology in Rajiv Gandhi Government Women and Children Hospital Puducherry, a tertiary care hospital totally 309 wound swabs collected from patients. Out of 309 samples 247 samples were positive for bacterial isolates showing positivity rate of 79.9%. In this study, Staphylococcus aureus (33.6%) was the predominant pathogen isolated which is frequent cause of surgical site infections (n=83). Most common Gram negative bacterial isolates (66.4%) causing wound infection in the present study was Escherichia coli (32.7%) followed by Klebsiella species (19%), Pseudomonas (11%), Proteus (1.6%), Acinetobacter (0.4%), Providencia (0.4%). Regarding antibiogram of Staphyloccocus aureus, Amikacin, cefaperazone sulbactum, meropenam, linezolid, vancomycin, gentamycin, cotrimoxazole were highly sensitive. This present study gives an insight of the type of bacterial isolates causing wound infections in caesarean sections and their antibiogram. This will help the clinicians to plan for Empirical therapy.
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