Septicemia in polyvalent medicine from 2019–2021 at Peltier hospital in Djibouti

Abstract

Sepsis could be a life-threatening crisis. Sepsis happens when a patient have an infection that have already triggers a chain reaction. Diseases that lead to sepsis most regularly begin within the lung, urinary tract, skin, or gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, it is crucial to establish an appropriate antibiotic choice and delivery method as the mortality increases with each hour of antibiotic delay. The objective of this study was to ascertain profile and anti-microbial susceptibility patterns of bacteria isolates from blood of patient’s detected with septicemia at Peltier Hospital in Djibouti. For the analysis, 509 inpatients hospitalized between two years were considered for the retrospective study. Serial blood culture sets were drawn aseptically into Oxoid Signal Blood Culture System Medium incubated at 37 ºC incubator and examined for microbial growth for ten consecutive days. Patients with at least a positive blood culture result were included in the study. The major pathogens of septicemia were Staphylococcus aureus (23 %), Escherichia coli (22 %), Staphylococcus epidermidis (17 %), Acinetobacter baumannii (15 %), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (12 %) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (11 %). Therefore, gram-positive cocci were the most common pathogens found to be responsible for septicemia with predominance of Staphylococcus (40 %).