Resistencia bacteriana en el Hospital General Isidro Ayora de la ciudad de

Abstract

Bacterial resistance is the main obstacle for the therapeutic efficacy of antibiotics. That is why the determination of levels of susceptibility and antimicrobial resistance has become so important and is essential to make rational use of antibiotics and to preserve the effectiveness of this valuable group of therapeutic agents. Therefore the need arose to conduct this study descriptive, retrospective, and transversal approach, which seeks to identify the bacteria most commonly associated with infections and thus also the levels of bacterial resistance, for which was included a sample of 1709 cultures with their respective susceptibility testing conducted during the months of January to August 2015 in the General Hospital Isidro Ayora in Loja city. Germs with high levels of resistance identified in the study are Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa; especially the aminopenicillins, cephalosporins and quinolones; A high prevalence of Staphylococcus coagulase negative and Staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicillin was also demonstrated.