Prevalence of Klebsiella Bacteriuria and Antimicrobial Susceptibility in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Tiruchirapalli, India

Abstract

Urinary tract infection is a common health issue encountered in medical practice and leads to frequent antibiotic prescription in outpatient department strains of Klebsiella are challenging for the clinicians when it is become a multidrug resistant Klebsiella either inside the hospital or in outpatient department. Thus this study has its own objective to determine the prevalence of Klebsiella bacteriuria among urine samples received in Clinical Microbiology Laboratory from February 2012 to June 2015. A battery of 3,958 urine samples was included. All the urine samples which are having the criteria for inclusion were subjected for bacteriological screening. Further confirmation performed by microscopy, biochemical tests and special staining. Among the urine samples processed, 170 samples supported Klebsiella sp isolation. Further, species level determination resulted K. pneumoniae (116) and K. oxytoca (54). All the isolates were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility test. This study revealed that Klebsiella pneumoniae isolation from UTI in this region is predominant.