Antibiotics Susceptibility and Multiple Antibiotics Resistant Pattern of Enterococcus Spp. Isolated from a Tertiary Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria

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Published Apr 30, 2017
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Volume 5, Issue 4, April 2017

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Ndubuisi John
Olonitola O. S.
Olayinka A. T.
Jatau E. D.
Iregbu K. C.
Odugu J.

Abstract

The research was carried out at National Hospital, Abuja where 120 samples comprising stool, urine, and wound swabs were collected and cultured onto Bile esculin azide agar. The stool yielded 25 enterococcal strains, urine 11 strains while wound swabs yielded 3 strains making a total of 39 isolated strains. Enterococcus mundtii and E. gallinarum exhibited resistance to 8 antibiotics disk, E. faecium and E. dispar exhibited resistance to 7 antibiotics disk while E. faecalis was resistant to 4 antibiotics disk tested. Ten multidrug resistance pattern were exhibited by the isolates with 87% of them having MAR index of 0.2 and above.

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John, N., S., O. O., T., O. A., D., J. E., C., I. K., & J., O. (2017). Antibiotics Susceptibility and Multiple Antibiotics Resistant Pattern of Enterococcus Spp. Isolated from a Tertiary Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria. The International Journal of Science & Technoledge, 5(4). Retrieved from http://internationaljournalcorner.com/index.php/theijst/article/view/123477