Open AccessPrevalence of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and pandrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a tertiary level Intensive Care Unit
Author(s) -
Jason Gill,
Sunil Arora,
Sahil Khanna,
K.V.S. Hari Kumar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/0974-777x.192962
Subject(s) - pseudomonas aeruginosa , intensive care unit , medicine , drug resistance , antibiotics , acinetobacter baumannii , multiple drug resistance , incidence (geometry) , acinetobacter , infection control , antibiotic resistance , microbiology and biotechnology , intensive care medicine , bacteria , biology , genetics , physics , optics
Infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is common in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), leading to increased morbidity and mortality. The organism is classified into various phenotypes based on the drug resistance pattern, namely, drug-resistant (DR), multi-DR (MDR), extensively DR (XDR), and pan-DR (PDR). We aim to study the incidence of P. aeruginosa phenotypes in a tertiary level ICU.