Prevalence of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in ICU Patients Clinical Isolates in Khartoum State Hospitals, Sudan, 2023

Abstract

Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most frequent Gram-negative pathogens responsible for nosocomial pneumonia. Methods: This is a cross-sectional analytical study was carried out on the target population (Khartoum state) (2023). The study included a total of (320) people of different ages, all volunteers were verbally informed about the study and their consent form were obtained, sample was collected, IBM statistic SPSS (V 25) was used for statistical analysis. Results: our study was designed to estimate the prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in ICU patients which revealed that among participants a high percent of females (78.4%) was diagnosed by pseudomonas with a majority source in urine, a fair of them aged between 31 – 40 years, most of them were single with 53.8%, results revealing that less than 20.3% were treated with antibiotics all samples were resistance to Meropenem and Imipenem, and for 1 – 3 months period of treatments. Conclusion: This finding highlights the necessity of continuous antimicrobial resistance surveillance for this bacterium is necessary for guiding antimicrobial treatment and finding new treatments, providing workshops and ensuring the level of knowledge remains high among health worker specially. Additionally, more effort should be made to educate people about the risk of drug resistance of these bacteria, more effort should be done by hospital staff in sterilization specially ICU wards.