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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1260</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>POST OPERATIVE WOUND INFECTION: BACTERIOLOGY AND ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY PATTERN&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Insan</surname><given-names>Nitin Goel</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Payal</surname><given-names>Nikhil</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Singh</surname><given-names>Mahesh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yadav</surname><given-names>Amod</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Chaudhary</surname><given-names>B.L</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Srivastava</surname><given-names>Ambrish</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>17</day><month>07</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>74</fpage><lpage>79</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Wound infection occurs if the integrity and protective function of the skin is breached. Most Bacteria, certain Viruses (e. g. Herpes virus), Fungi (e.g.Candida albicans) are responsible for wound infection [3]. A study was designed to isolate and identify the aerobic bacterial agents of post operative wound infection as well as to determine their antibiotic sensitivity pattern. Method: Total 102 pus samples were collected from surgical sites and immediately inoculated on Blood agar and MacConkey agar plates. Then the culture plates were incubated at 37oC for 24 hours. After incubation, all isolates were identified by using Gram stain and biochemical methods. Sensitivity tests were performed on Mueller Hinton agar plate by Kirby Bauer__ampersandsignrsquo;s disc diffusion technique. Result: During the study period (February 2012- January 2013), a total of 102 samples were analyzed. Among 102 samples, 73 (71.5%) showed positive growth. The most frequent isolate was Staphylococcus aureus 24 (32.8%) followed by Escherichia coli 15 (20.5%), Pseudomonas species (16.4%). Antibiotic sensitivity test of the isolates showed that Ampicillin+Sulbactum (87.5%) and Linazolid (85%) were the most effective antibiotics for Gram positive bacteria and Ciprofloxacin (52.5%) was the least effective antibiotic. Gram negative isolates were most sensitive to Lomifloxacin (70.3%) followed by Netilline (61.1%). Cefuroxime (18.5%) was the least sensitive antibiotic for Gram negative bacteria in this study. Conclusion: The most common isolate in wound infection was Staphylococcus aureus followed by E.coli. Ampicillin+Sulbactum was most effective antibiotic for Gram positive bacteria and Lomifloxacin was most effective against Gram negative bacteria.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Wound infection</kwd><kwd> Staphylococcus aureus</kwd><kwd> Escherichia coli</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
