Prevalence of Nonfermentative Gram Negative Bacilli In Seriously ill Patients With Bacteraemia.
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2010-10
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Bacteraemia due to nonfermentative gram negative bacilli appears to be increasing in frequency
particularly in hospitalized patients with severe underlying illness. A total of 159 (79.50%) organisms
were isolated from blood cultures of 200 seriously ill patients. Out of these, 73 (45.91%) were
nonfermentative gram negative bacilli. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the commonest isolate (32.88%)
followed by Acinetobacter spp. (23.28%) and Burkholderia cepacia (10.96%). Analysis of antimicrobial
susceptibility testing showed multidrug resistant pattern with majority of the isolates being resistant to
three or more drugs.
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Bacteraemia, Nonfermentative Gram Negative Bacilli
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Sidhu Shailpreet, Arora Usha, Devi Pushpa. Prevalence of Nonfermentative Gram Negative Bacilli In Seriously ill Patients With Bacteraemia. JK Science Journal of Medical Education and Research. 2010 Oct-Dec; 12(4): 168-171