عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Introduction
A large group of patients who are hospitalized with meningitis do not actually
have bacterial meningitis and are caused by viral agents, but are routinely
treated with antibiotics, which causes problems such as the emergence of
resistant bacteria. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate antibiotic
resistance in patients hospitalized with infectious meningitis.
Materials and Methods
This study was a cross-sectional study. The variables of this design included
age, gender, and underlying disease. The inclusion criteria included all patients
with meningitis whose diagnosis was based on LP analysis and culture, and the
exclusion criterion included incomplete patient records. The data of the design
were collected through census sampling and by referring to the records of
patients with bacterial meningitis hospitalized in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital,
Yazd from 2011 to 2022. In this study, the data were statistically analyzed
using SPSS VER 21.
Results
In all types of cultures (Streptococcus, Staphylococcus MSSA, Staphylococcus
MRSA and others), the highest resistance was related to penicillin and the
highest sensitivity was related to vancomycin. The most common complication
in children was seizures (55.3%) and in adults the most common underlying
disease was diabetes (59.4%).
Conclusion
All culture types (Streptococcus, Staphylococcus MSSA, Staphylococcus
MRSA, etc.) had the highest resistance to penicillin and the highest
susceptibility to vancomycin.
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