ABSTRACT
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Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) are gram positive cocci having uniform size and are mostly found as normal flora on skin. It has been proven that this specific bacterium of the cocci family has through time developed resistance to many antibiotics ranging from the main spears of antibiotics like methicillin (as in MRSA) and vancomycin (as in VRSA). This study aimed at determining the antibiotic susceptibility of S. aureus isolates from two hospitals in the South West region of Cameroon. A total of about 50 fresh isolates were collected from the Limbe Regional Hospital and Holy Trinity Clinic Ekona with 25 coming from each hospital, and their antibiotic susceptibilities determined using the standard disc diffusion technique. The results show that, there is an overall resistance of 45.2 %, intermediate of 29.6 % and sensitive of 25.2 %. We also have a given susceptibility ranging from 4 % sensitive to 24 % intermediate to 72 % resistant strands in Ekona and 12 % sensitive, 20 % intermediate and 68 % resistant in Limbe. These results show that there is a slight difference in patterns and also the rate of antibiotic resistance is very high. Therefore, there should be an antibiotic control program to prevent this problem.
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(FOTABONG D, 2017)
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FOTABONG, D (2017) ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY OF Staphylococcus aureus ISOLATES FROM TWO HOSPITALS IN THE SOUTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON.
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