Microorganisms encountered in blood cultures at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and their antibiotic sensitivity pattern

ABSTRACT

The importance of blood cultures in the early detection of organisms is examined with the following conclusions. The isolation of of gram-positive and gram negative organisms are isolated from blood cultures with equal frequency. K. pneumoniae and E. coli are the most frequently isolated gram gram-negataive organisms. Staph, epidermis is isolated more frequently than Stap. aureus. Gentamcin was found to be the most effective antibiotic against Gram-negative blood culture isolates. Clindamycin and cloxacillin were found to be the most effective antibiotics against the gram-positive isolates. Chloramphenicol was found to be the most effective agent against the anaerobes as a group