Pseudomonas spp as a pathogen responsable for sepsis in pediatric ages
Introduction: Pseudomonas infections have suffered transformations at their origin , incidence and antimicrobial resistance.Objetive: Compare community infections and those associated with health care for Pseudomonas in patients admited to the pediatricProvincial Hospital Pepe Portilladuring the year 2022.Method: 65 patients with positive isolation of Pseudomonas spp were studied, the simple corresponded to 57 of them whopresented a clinical suspicion or confirmation of an infection associatedwith helth or community assistance by gender.For statistical analysis, the satatistical Package for Social Sciences versión 12.0 for qualitative and quantitative variables was used.Resul: the 87,69% of the patients expressed clinical disease predominating in a 32,3% comunity origen. Associated comorbilities and inapropiate use of antimicrobials (100 %) resulted in risk factors.the frequented with a 22,8% otitis in the community and pneumonis in the hospital sphere.Pseudomona aeruginosa turned out to be th most frequent species.Imipenem an Meropenem showed the highest levels of resistance, panresistence affect in the community.Conclusions: The community origen of clinically expressed infectioms prevailed. Pseudomona aeriginosa cause number of infections with vital commitment in both infections contexts. The carbapenemic showed hight antimicrobial resistance.
Authors
- Kirenia Apaulaza Corrales (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-5899)
- Maydelin Del Carmen Fernández González
- Miguel Martínez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8889-9708)
- Jorge Ernesto Rojas Concepción (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4191-7312)
- Roberto Madera Chirico
Institutions
- Universidad de Ciencias Medicas (CR)
- University of Pinar del Río (CU)
- Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología (CU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- South Health and Policy
- Published
- 2025-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.56294/shp2025181
- Primary Topic
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00