Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Klebsiella Pneumonae Isolates from Clinical Samples

Abstract

The susceptibility of K. pneumoniae isolates toward 22 antibiotics kind where examined by technique of disk diffusion. The result reported that 63 (98.44%) isolates of K. pneumoniae were cefotaxime resistant, 62 (96.88%) isolates were resistant to both ampicillin and amoxclave, 59 (92.19%) isolates were resistant to cefepime, 57 (89.06%) isolates were resistant to cefoxitin, 52 (81.25%) and 54 (84.38%) were ceftizoxime and ceftriaxone resistant respectively. Present result demonstrated that 19 (29.69%) and 32 (50%) isolates of K. pneumoniae were imipenem and meropenem resistant respectively, 11 (17.19%), 14 (21.88%) and 43 (67.19%) isolates were norfloxxacin resistant, levofloxcacin and ciprofloxacin respectively. This study explained that 7 (10.94%), 19 (29.69%) and 30 (46.88) isolates were amikacin resistance, tobramycin and kanamycin respectively, 51 (79.69%) and 5 (89.06%) isolates were resistant to sulphonamide and trimethoprim respectively.