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Changing patient population in D haka H ospital and M atlab H ospital of icddr,b

2013; Wiley; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/tmi.12231

1365-3156

Sumon Kumar Das, Aminur Rahman, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Mohammad Abdul Malek, MA Salam, P K Bardhan, A. S. G. Faruque,

Global Maternal and Child Health

Abstract The Diarrhoeal D isease S urveillance S ystem of icddr,b noted increasing number of patients ≥60 years at urban D haka and rural M atlab from 2001 to 2012. Shigella and V ibrio cholerae were more frequently isolated from elderly people than children under 5 years and adults aged 5–59 in both areas. The resistance observed to various drugs of S higella in D haka and M atlab was trimethoprim–sulphamethoxazole (72–63%), ampicillin (43–55%), nalidixic acid (58–61%), mecillinam (12–9%), azithromycin (13–0%), ciprofloxacin (11–13%) and ceftriaxone (11–0%). Vibrio cholerae isolated in D haka and Matlab was resistant to trimethoprim–sulphamethoxazole (98–94%) , furazolidone (100%), erythromycin (71–53%), tetracycline (46–44%), ciprofloxacin (3–10%) and azithromycin (3–0%).