ANTIBIOGRAM STUDY OF URINARY ISOLATES AMONG INPATIENTS AND OUTPATIENTS AT PUDUCHERRY STATE, SOUTH INDIA

The Urinary tract infections (UTI) are common in men and women and the most common in postoperative patients. In this study, antibiogram of urinary isolates among the Inpatients (IP) – 85 samples and Outpatients (OP) – 73 samples were determined. Organisms were isolated from the collected midstream urine sample and subjected for identification and evaluated for the susceptibility pattern. Mainly the Urinary Tract Infection causing organism in OP and IP was Escherichia coli. Others include Klebsiella sp., Pseudomonas sp., Proteus sp., and Staphylococcus sp in which various degrees of susceptibility patterns were recorded. Inpatients isolates showed high degree of resistance to the antibiotics used. In both IP/OP, the major uropathogen was Escherichia coli