Diabetic Foot Infection Due to Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Peshawar

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the diabetic foot infection due to pseudomonas aeruginosa in Peshawar. METHODOLOGY: A tenth month study was conducted at Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar from April 2019 to February 2020. All diabetic foot patients, admitted at surgical ward with outpatients were also enrolled in the study. The study was conducted on 109 patients with both genders. RESULTS: The result of male to female ratio was equal. Out of 109, fifty-five (55) were male and fifty-four (54) were female. A total of 109 bacteria were isolated from those patients. Age ranges from 40 years to 85 years. All 109 patients is present with 1 pathogen, none of it is present with multiple pathogen. Gram-positive organisms were found only in 37 (32%) patients, while other are grams negative. Staphylococcus aureus was most prominent isolated bacteria in 37 (32%) patients, followed by E.coli 29 (27%), enterobacter 20 (18%), pseudomonas 12 (11%), citrobacter species 12 (11%), and proteus species in 01 (01%) patient. CONCLUSION: This study concluded that Staphylococcus is most dominant gram-positive organism isolated about 32%, followed by other gram-negative organism. Patient ages between 51-60 were most in number i.e. 43 out of 109. The mean age is 54±5. KEYWORDS: Staphylococcus, Gram-positive, E. coli, Bacteria, Antibiotics