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Prevalence of Multidrug Resistant Organisms in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units of Beni-Suef University Hospital

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Background: Hospital acquired infections are still a major cause of morbidity and mortality among neonates and children admitted to intensive care units Objectives: To determine the prevalence and clinical distribution of Multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs) in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of Beni-Suef University Hospital. Methodology: A cross-sectional study included 160 patients diagnosed with sepsis, 80 patients admitted at NICU and another 80 patients at PICU. Blood, sputum, urine were collected from each patient, to perform; CBC, CRP, culture and sensitivity. Identification of isolates was conducted by the various conventional methods. Thereafter, antimicrobial sensitivity tests were conducted for each isolate to detect MDROs. Results: Most of the isolates were MDROs (85.8%%) with high statistical significant difference regarding their frequencies. Most common Gram-negative isolate was klebsiella pneumoniae representing 36.7% of isolates. Candida albicans were significantly more frequent among PICU cases (p-value <0.05). MDR risk factors revealed that: length of stay (LOS) at the present ICU or LOS in another ICU before the current one were associated risk factors (p-value = 0.00001, 0.05 respectively). MDR Gram-negative isolates showed high resistance to ampicillin-sulbactam (98.8%) and were most sensitive to polymyxin (79.1%). In MDR Gram-positive yields, vancomycin (93%) and linozolide (100%) were the most effective, whilst, resistance was evident against ampicillin (93%). All Candida spp. isolates were most sensitive to amphotericin (93.1%) and most resistant to fluconazole (62%). The overall mortality rate was 32.5%: NICU deaths represented 52.5% and PICU deaths 12.5% with a significant difference between NICU and PICU. Conclusion: Prevalence rate of MDROs is extremely high among NICU and PICU patients even against newer categories of antibiotics, so, more strict infection control program should be applied.

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10.21608/ejmm.2019.282666

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MDROs, Antimicrobial resistance, NICU, PICU

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Huda

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Ibrahim

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M. A.

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Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

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Gamal Eldin

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Taha

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M. M.

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Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

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Nermin

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Ibrahim

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Hassan

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Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

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nerhassan@gmail.com

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Waleed

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El Malah

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M.

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Pediatrics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

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Manal

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Anwar

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M.

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Public Health and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

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28

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2

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39228

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2019-04-01

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2023-01-28

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2019-04-01

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27

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35

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1110-2179

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2537-0979

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New and original researches in the field of Microbiology.

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Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology

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Prevalence of Multidrug Resistant Organisms in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units of Beni-Suef University Hospital

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