Drug Susceptibility Profile Of Staphylococcus Aureus Strains Isolated From Endo-Cervical Swab Specimens In Saint John The Baptist Catholic Health Centre Ndop.

Empirical antimicrobial therapy for endo-cervical Staphylococcus aureus infections in the community where Saint John the Baptist Catholic Health Centre Ndop is located, is of major importance since it has helped to obtain medications of choice, deduce appropriate prescriptions and a standard antibiotic profile for Staphylococcus aureus in endo-cervical swab specimens in Ndop area and Njokitunjia Division at large.
This study was a prospective and analytical study on women who consulted in Saint John the Baptist Catholic Health Center Ndop with one or more signs and symptoms of urinogenital (vaginal and or endocervical) infections. Adopting an open ended quantative aproach, we aimed at determining antimicrobial susceptibility profile for Staphylococcus aureus from endocervical swab culture. Fifty eight (58) women who were both in patient and out patient were subjected to this study. The study precisely consisted of collection of endocervical swab specimen, identification and isolation of S. aureus strains in cultures, and conduction of in-vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing by the Disc Diffusion Technique.
In this study, it was found that the S. aureus strains showed 100% susceptibility to
vancomycin, Gentamicin (91.4%), Augmentin (89.7%), ciprofloxacin (86.2%) and streptomycin (82.7%) which were highly effective against the 58 isolates of S. aureus
tested. Percentages of susceptibility were low (below 50%) for ampicillin, tetracycline,
chloramphenicol, erythromycin, and penicillin.
This study challenges the health body as a whole to implement adequate means of
epidemiological surveillance antibiotic sensitivity of bacterial strains isolated in laboratories.