Recent trends in antibiotic sensitivity and resistance patterns in infected wounds of burns patients presented to a tertiary care hospital.

Objective: To study the recent trends and patterns of antibiotic sensitivity and resistance in infected wounds of burns patient. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Setting: Burns and Plastic Surgery Canter, Peshawar, Pakistan. Period: July 30th to January 30th, 2023. Methods: In this cross sectional study we adopted convenience sampling technique. A total of 75 samples collected from patients fitted to our infected patients criteria and culture and sensitivity tests were performed using standard microbiological techniques. Results: Among the positive infected wound samples, Klebsiella Species were found in 23 (30.7%), Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in 16 (21.3%), Acinetobacter Species in 14(18.7%), Proteus Species in 8(10.7%), Citrobacter species in 5(6.6%), Staph. Aureus in 5(6.6%), Enterobacter species in 3(4%) and E.coli in 1(1.4%) of the positive cultures. Each pathogen showed varying degree of sensitivity and resistance patterns to different antibiotics tested. Conclusion: Klebsiella Species was the most common pathogen in patients with infected burns wounds. Meropenem, imipenem, Doripenem, Piperacillin/Tazobactum, Colistin, and Tigecyclin were found to be effective against the majority of the bacteria. Conversely, most of the bacterial strains exhibited resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics such as co-amoxiclave, ampicillin, ceftriaxone, ciprofloxacin, cefotaxime and co-trimoxazole.