Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To observe the distribution and drug resistance of pathogens isolated from orthopedics department patients of China Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (CARSS) in 2021.
METHODS The orthopedics department-related data were extracted from the reports of CARSS. The distribution and drug resistance of the major species of pathogens were analyzed by WHONET 5.6 software.
RESULTS The clinical data of all the orthopedics department patients were analyzed. Totally 130 928 strains of non-repetitive pathogens were isolated, 25.7% of which were isolated from pus specimens, 14.2% from urine specimens, 7.1% from sputum specimens, 4.1% from blood specimens, 0.3% from ascites specimens. The constituent ratio of pus specimens was higher than that of specimens of patients in other departments. Among the species of pathogens,
Staphylococcus aureus accounted for 21.4%,
Escherichia coli 15.0%,
Klebsiella pneumoniae 7.3%,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 7.2%,
Staphylococus epidermidis 6.1%,
Enterobacter cloacae 5.9%,
Acinetobacter baumannii 3.8%,
Enterococcus faecalis 3.6%,
Proteus mirabilis (2.5%),
Staphylococcus haemolyticus (2.5%),
Enterococcus faecium 1.8%. In terms of the major species of drug-resistant pathogens, the isolation rate of carbapenem-resistant
Klebsiella pneumoniae was 6.7%, the isolation rate of carbapenem-resistant
Pseudomonas aeruginosa was 8.2%, the isolation rate of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus was 28.1%, and the isolation rate of carbapenem-resistant
A.baumannii was 36.8%, lower than the data of the patients of the whole country.
CONCLUSION The orthopedics department patients show remarkable characteristics of distribution of pathogens, the isolation rate of
S.aureus strains is high, and the drug resistance rate is lower in the orthopedics department than in other departments. It is necessary to continuously strengthen the reasonable use of antibiotics and prevention and control of nosocomial infection, maintain vigilant for the risk of potential transmission of drug-resistant strains and carry out the antimicrobial surveillance.