Prevalencia de Staphylococcus Aureus Meticilino resistente en reportes de laboratorio clínico del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca 2015-2016

Abstract

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a global public health problem, as it increases morbidity and mortality from infections, according to the World Health Organization, 5.7 million people die every year from this cause (3); In addition, it causes a high cost in the care of patients. Until now, the taking of the sample for culture and the study with antibiotics remain the gold standard in its diagnosis. (4) General objective: to determine the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus methicillin resistant in reports of the Clinical Laboratory of Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca. Methodology: a descriptive, retrospective prevalence study was carried out with the total of reports issued in the microbiology laboratory of the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso in the year 2015-2016. The report of Staphylococcus aureus methicillin resistant (MRSA) was associated with the study variables considered: age, sex, hospital service, type of sample. Statistical information was processed in the SPSS v 22 program and the Excel data analysis program was used to produce graphs. Results: The prevalence of resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was 14.17%. Of the Staphylococcus gender, the most representative were: S. aureus 32.61%, S. epidermidis 29.83% and S. hominis 12.38%; 49.3% of patients were under 18 years old, 59.8% were men, of them in the pediatric service, 33.6% were found, clinical 31.9%; in blood samples 32.8% were MRSA, 49.3% secretions and 10.5% catheter tip. Conclusions: Staphylococcus spp with the gender S. aureus, S. haemolyticus and S. epidermidis, is frequent in the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital, mainly in pediatric and clinical services