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Prevalence of multidrug resistant bacteria in Egyptian hospitalized patients

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Antimicrobials
Bacteria
Human Microbial Interactions
Medical Microbiology
Molecular Biology

Abstract

The growth and spread of pathogenic bacteria resistant to commercial antibiotics is one of the biggest issues facing the world today. The aim of this study was to investigate the rates of antibiotic resistance bacteria that cause infections as well as the prevalence and characteristics of antibiotic prescriptions among hospitalized patients. A total of 330 clinical samples including sputum, blood, pus, wound, and urine were collected from hospitalized female and male patients aged 9 to 82 years. Two hundred pathogenic bacteria were isolated and identified from patients and subjected to antibiotic susceptibility testing. Gram-negative bacteria were much more prevalent than Gram-positive bacteria. The most common bacteria were Klebsiella pneumonia and Staphylococcus aureus. The Gram-negative and Gram-positive isolates were mainly resistant to amikacin, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, cefazolin, cefaclor, ciprofloxacin, ceftazidime, cefotaxime, cefepime, gentamicin, levofloxacin, ofloxacin, imipenem, meropenem, doxycycline, and tetracycline. Among the 15 antibiotics, most isolated strains were carbapenem-sensitive. All strains were found to be multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria. Therefore, these two strains were identified using 16SrRNA sequencing and registered in the GenBank database with accession numbers, CP 072555.1 and MW 453042.1. It could be concluded that MDR bacteria, both Gram-positive and Gram-negative, are common among hospital patients. All of the identified strains were MDR, however they were carbapenem-sensitive. The most common bacteria were Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumonia. These results emphasize the need to search for contemporary antibiotics to combat these antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

DOI

10.21608/mb.2024.312767.1147

Keywords

Antibiotic Susceptibility, bacterial infection, clinical specimens, human-microbe interaction, Multidrug resistance bacteria

Authors

First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Mokabel

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Clinical Pathology Department, Akhmim Hospital, Sohag, Egypt.

Email

asmaamokabel03@gmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Hassan

Last Name

Gebreel

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hassangebreel@sci.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

HebatAllah

Last Name

Youssef

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hoba83@sci.asu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Noura

Last Name

El-Kattan

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Microbiology Department, Research Institute of Medical Entomology, General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes, Giza, Egypt.

Email

rosemaryh48@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Mosaad

Last Name

Abdel-Wahhab

MiddleName

Attia

Affiliation

Food Toxicology and Contaminants Department, National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

mosaad_abdelwahhab@yahoo.com

City

KALYOBIYA

Orcid

0000-0002-7174-3341

Volume

9

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

49870

Issue Date

2024-12-01

Receive Date

2024-08-15

Publish Date

2024-12-29

Page Start

121

Page End

132

Print ISSN

2357-0326

Online ISSN

2357-0334

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https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/article_401021.html

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401,021

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Original Article

Type Code

502

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Microbial Biosystems

Publication Link

https://mb.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Prevalence of multidrug resistant bacteria in Egyptian hospitalized patients

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Article

Created At

30 Dec 2024