A PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON BACTERIOLOGY AND PRESCRIBING PATTERN OF ANTIBIOTICS IN DIABETIC FOOT ULCER PATIENTS AT A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL.
Anjali George*, Ansu Anna Dan, Babitha Annie Eapen, Chaithra S, Menaka and Sivakumar.T
ABSTRACT
Diabetes mellitus is a disease caused by deficiency or diminished effectiveness of endogenous insulin. Our study aims to find out the most common microorganism in the infected diabetic foot and the prescribing pattern of antibiotics in treating the diabetic foot ulcer in a tertiary care hospital. This is a prospective observational study conducted in surgery department of a tertiary care hospital for a period of 3 months (March-May 2016). The predominant micro-organisms isolated were Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli (22 and 20 cases respectively). Out of 74 patients included in our study 26 were under monotherapy 20 had two antibiotic drug combination 23 had three antibiotic combination and 5 were more than three antibiotic drug combination. These finding encouraged for the development of a fixed antibiotic regimen for treating the diabetic foot ulcer patients empirically.
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