Bacteremia and Antimicrobial Drug Resistance over Time, Ghana

• DOI: 10.3201/edi1710.110327
• Publication Date: 2013-09-09T16:49:44Z
• Authors: Uwe Groß; Sylvarius K. Amuzu; Ring de Ciman; Iparkhan Kassimova; Lisa Groß; Wolfgang Rabsch; Ulrike Rosenberg; Marco Schulze; August Stich; Ortrud Zimmermann
• Keywords: Adult; 0301 basic medicine; Time Factors; 610 Medizin; 610; bloodstream infection; Bacteremia; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Ghana; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology; Typhoid Fever/microbiology; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; FUO; Bacteremia/drug therapy; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Salmonella enterica/isolation & purification; Humans; Drug Resistance Bacterial; Salmonella enterica/drug effects; bacteremia; Typhoid Fever; bacteria; ddc:610; R; Dispatch; Salmonella enterica; Middle Aged; Bacteremia/microbiology; Anti-Bacterial Agents; 3. Good health; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use; Ghana; bacterial distribution; drug resistance; fever of unknown origin; Medicine; Typhoid Fever/drug therapy; typhoid fever

Bacterial distribution and antimicrobial drug resistance were monitored in patients with bacterial bloodstream infections in rural hospitals in Ghana. In 2001-2002 and in 2009, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi was the most prevalent pathogen. Although most S. enterica serovar Typhi isolates were chloramphenicol resistant, all isolates tested were susceptible to ciprofloxacin.