Isolation of secondary bacterial infections in pulmonary

Authors

  • Hayat Kadhum Salman

Abstract

This study was aimed to isolation the secondary bacterial infection from pulmonary tuberculosis patients from the new case and failure of tuberculosis treatment .The  antimicrobial susceptibility to the isolated secondary bacterial infection in pulmonary tuberculosis in the new and failed treated cases were done.

From the 50 collected sputum specimens, the results show the percentage of positive secondary bacterial infection is 72%(n. 36), and negative is 28% (n.14), also the study showed that 27 from the 36 cases had a positive secondary bacterial infection were from new cases 75%, while only 9 of 36 cases had a positive secondary bacterial infection were from failure of tuberculosis treatment 25%.The secondary bacterial infection in pulmonary tuberculosis were found in 21 male patients(58.3%)   and 15 in female patients(40.7%).In this study there was an isolation four types of secondary bacterial infection in those 36 pateints such as: 20 patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae (55.6%), 8 with Streptococcus pyogens (22.2%), 4 with Staphylococcus aureus (11.1%), and 4 with Klebsiela pneumoniae (11.1%).

     The results showed there was a high percentage of resistant to some antibiotics.

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Published

2011-11-15

How to Cite

Salman, H. K. (2011). Isolation of secondary bacterial infections in pulmonary. Al-Kufa University Journal for Biology, 3(2). Retrieved from https://journal.uokufa.edu.iq/index.php/ajb/article/view/9315

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2011): Magazine of Al-kufa University for Biology

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