Prevalence and Antibiogram of Multidrug Resistant Staphylococci
*Vidhya C.V. a,b and S. Niren Andrewc
aBharathiyar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (India) bEthiraj College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India) cMadras Christian College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India)
ABSTRACT
Coagulase positive Staphylococci (COPS) and coagulase negative Staphylococci (CONS) are emerging as potential pathogens causing various diseases ranging from mild infections like eye and wound infections to fatal diseases like UTI, endocarditis, polymer associated infections etc. Multi-drug resistant strains of both coagulase positive and negative Staphylococci have been developed. Periodical comparative study of their antibiograms hence has become indispensable. In this study, the prevalence of multidrug resistant strains is comparatively high in Staphylococcus aureus than coagulase negative Staphylococci. All the multidrug resistant strains were found to be sensitive for linezolids.