Characterization of common Circulating Acinetobacter associated with Surgical Site Infection in a level 4 hospital in Western Kenya.

Corresponding Author

Seth Shikuku

Facility of affiliation. Kitale county hospital

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Introduction

Surgical site infection is a modern day health care challenge of concern, Acinetobacter species is one of the notorious bug that is strongly linked to hospital acquired infections with known significantly resistant to many commonly available antimicrobial agents.

ABSTRACT:

There is an alarming increase in antibiotic resistance especially on common bacterial infections that could be attributed to extensive unregulated use of antibiotics. Continuous strategic monitoring of antibiotic use and AMR trends becomes imperative. This serves as a motivation to a thorough evaluation of wound isolates for relevant bacteria and assessing their drug susceptibility patterns, which we report herein.