ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MAP OF BACTERIAL AGENTS ISOLATED AT SANTA BÁRBARA HOSPITAL

Abstract

The increase in bacterial resistance worldwide makes this phenomenon one of the biggest challenges for Public Health. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out, with the aim of preparing the epidemiological map of antimicrobial resistance of bacterial agents isolated from patients treated at the Santa Barbara Hospital in the city of Sucre during the first half of the 2017. The population under study were all cultures of microbiological samples with isolation of a pathogen registered in the Microbiology Laboratory. For the systematization of the data, the WHONET 5.6 software was used and the data analysis was performed according to the document “Analysis and Presentation of Accumulated Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Data” approved by CLSI. The epidemiological map of resistance was drawn up, establishing the prevalence of circulating bacterial agents at the hospital level, their distribution according to the resistance phenotype and the hospital service; In addition, the percentages of resistance against antimicrobials of habitual use were determined. The results obtained show that the epidemiological resistance map of the Santa Barbara Hospital has higher resistance percentages than the epidemiological maps of other hospitals in Latin America.