A Retrospective Study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolation from Clinical Sources

Summary

The incidence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa recovery from blood, urine and other clinical specimens as well as its resistance to various antimicrobials during a 5-year period (1982 to 1986) are reported. The susceptibility patterns to newer antipseudomonad agents of 100 randomly selected P. aeruginosa clinical strains isolated in 1987 is also presented. Our results show an overall P. aeruginosa isolation incidence of 10.6%, with its resistance to routinely used antibiotics being high but relatively low to the newer agents which have not been used extensively in our hospital.

Key Words::

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• carbenicillin
• gentamicin
• tobramycin
• piperacillin
• amikacin
• polymyxin B