Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Research Article

Study of Bacterial Spectrum in Patients of Chronic Dacryocystitis, At a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India

¹Department of Ophthalmology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

²Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

*Corresponding Author:

Sukriti Ahuja, MBBS
Department of Ophthalmology, King George’s Medical University
Hno-1002, Sector-19, Faridabad, Haryana, India
Tel: 8127254031
E-mail: sukriti100@gmail.com

Received date: May 12, 2017; Accepted date: July 19, 2017; Published date: July 21, 2017

Citation: Ahuja S, Chhabra AK, Agarwal J (2017) Study of Bacterial Spectrum in Patients of Chronic Dacryocystitis, at a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India. J Community Med Health Educ 7: 536. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000536

Copyright: © 2017 Ahuja S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Purpose: To ascertain the current pattern of microbial isolates and their antibiotic sensitivity patterns in patients of chronic dacryocystitis seen at a tertiary care centre in North India.

Methods: A case record analysis was conducted on computerized data of 400 immune competent patients of chronic dacryocystitis in KGMC, Lucknow between Jan 2011-Dec 2015. The sample for purpose of microbiological isolate was collected from patients who ROPLAS +ve. The sample was collected under strict sterile control and culture was done on 5% sheep blood agar. Antibiotic sensitivity was done by Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method on Mueller Hinton agar.

Results: 400 samples were collected for bacterial culture and antibiotic sensitivity. 61% of these samples were sterile at 24 hrs and 72 hrs of culture. 39% were positive for microbial Agents. Staphylococcus aureus (54.6%) was the most common gram positive cocci followed by coagulase negative Staphylococcus epidermidis (19.4%), followed by Streptococcus pneumoniae (14%). Gram negative organisms in both group A and group B included Pseudomonas aeruginosa (6%) followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (3%) and Hemophilus influenzae (3%). High sensitivity was seen towards vancomycin and fluoroquinolones in Gram positive bacteria and for Piperacillin/ Tazobactum in gram negative cases.

Conclusion: It is important to have knowledge of the microbial agent responsible for chronic dacryocystitis in a particular area to the choose the most appropriate antibiotic for the implicated organism.

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