Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To understand the current status of distribution and drug resistance of pathogens isolated from the patients of neurosurgery department in 2021.
METHODS The pathogens that were isolated from the neurosurgery department patients of 1 371 hospitals of China Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (CARSS) from Oct 2020 to Sep 2021 were analyzed by using WHONET 5.6 software. The distribution of specimens, distribution of species, drug susceptibility rates and drug resistance rates to the commonly used antibiotics were observed.
RESULTS Totally 180 909 strains of pathogens were isolated from the neurosurgery department patients of 1 371 hospitals of CARSS, sputum was the major specimen source, and 72.04% of the strains were isolated from sputum specimens; gram-negative bacteria accounted for 78.97%, and gram-positive bacteria accounted for
21.03%.
Klebsiella pneumoniae (39 812 strains, 22.01%),
Acinetobacter baumannii (24 177 strains, 13.36%) ,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (22 591 strains, 12.49%),
Escherichia coli (17 293 strains, 9.56%) and
Staphylococcus aureus (16 158 strains, 8.93%) ranked the top 5 species of pathogens. The isolation rate of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was 36.7% among the neurosurgery department patients. The drug resistance rates of the
Enterococcus faecium strains to vancomycin, teicoplanin and linezolid were 1.7%, 2.1% and 0.4%, respectively; the drug resistance rates of
Enterococcus faecalis strains to vancomycin, teicoplanin and linezolid were 0.2%, 0.7% and 2.5%, respectively. The drug resistance rates of
E.coli, K.pneumoniae,
P.aeruginosa and
A.baumannii strains to imipenem were 2.9%, 16.6%, 24.4% and 65.8%, respectively; the drug resistance rates of the above species to meropenem were 3.0%, 17.2%, 20.7% and 67.2%, respectively; the drug resistance rates of the pathogens were higher than those of the pathogens isolated from all the departments in 2020.
CONCLUSION It is necessary to strengthen the supervision of antibiotics for the neurosurgery department patients and improve the capability of prevention and control of nosocomial infection.