A microbiological study of surgical infections in tertiary care hospital of Rewa District
Keywords:
abscess, surgical infections, contaminated, wounds, devitalized tissueAbstract
Most common involvement of aerobes and anaerobes is observed in surgical infections. They are mostly polymicrobial. 52 cases comprised of abscesses and study of 19 cases with wounds having devitalized tissues was done. Abscess had highest micro organism, which were isolated per lesion. The ratio of aerobe to anaerobe was 8.6 and 5.5 in group A and group B respectively. Predominant aerobes were S. aureus and E coli while predominant anaerobes were Bacteroides fragilis and Peptostreptococcus anaerobius. Surgical Infection are more with contaminated surgical wound than clean surgical wound. Commonly E. coli and S aureus were causing surgical infections. Better understanding of these microbiological pathogens was seen in present study which has therapeutic and epidemiological implications. To conduct further research this study can act as pilot study.
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