Bacteriological Profile of Patients With Stroke-Associated Pneumonia and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Pathogens: A Cross-Sectional Study

The most common pathogenic bacteria in our study were <i>K. pneumoniae</i>, <i>A. baumannii</i>, <i>P. aeruginosa</i>, <i>E. coli</i>, and <i>S. aureus</i>. Enterobacterales were highly sensitive to tigecycline. <i>A. baumannii</i> and <i>E. meningoseptica</i> had maximum sensitivity for minocycline. All isolates of <i>S. aureus</i> were sensitive to both vancomycin and linezolid. We warrant further research with a larger sample size to investigate the bacteriological profile among other critically ill patients and their AST findings.