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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">1877</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>INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: A BREEDING GROUND FOR ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Basak</surname><given-names>Silpi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rajurkar</surname><given-names>Monali N.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Attal</surname><given-names>Ruchita O.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mallick</surname><given-names>Sanjay Kumar</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>18</day><month>04</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume/><issue/><fpage>141</fpage><lpage>148</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>Objective: The present study was undertaken to detect the prevalence of multiple antibiotic resistant&#13;
bacteria isolated from ICU patients and to study their antibiotic susceptibility profile. Method: The&#13;
organisms were isolated from different clinical specimens and antibiotic susceptibility tests were done as&#13;
per Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI) guideline. The different tests for detection of&#13;
Methicillin Resistant Staohylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Gram negative bacilli producing Extended&#13;
spectrum beta-lactamases(ESBL), AmpC __ampersandsignbeta;-lactamases and Metallobetalactamases(MBL) were performed&#13;
by standard methods. Results: A total number of 240 bacterial strains were studied. Out of which&#13;
105(43.8 %) were Gram positive isolates and 135(56.2%) were Gram negative isolates. 57(54.3%) MRSA&#13;
strains were isolated. Amongst Gram negative isolates 29(21.5%) strains were only ESBL; 13(9.6%) only&#13;
AmpC __ampersandsignbeta;-lactamase, 18(13.3%) both ESBL and AmpC __ampersandsignbeta;-lactamase and 21(15.6%) were MBL producers.&#13;
19 MBL producing strains were resistant to all antibiotics studied as per CLSI guideline. Conclusion:&#13;
Accurate detection of multidrug resistant bacteria by any Clinical Microbiology Laboratory should be&#13;
done for prompt and effective antimicrobial therapy to ICU patients and successful management of&#13;
infections.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>MRSA</kwd><kwd> Multidrug resistant organisms.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
