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Background Antibiotic resistance poses burden to the community and health care services. Efforts are being made at local, national and global level to combat the rise of antibiotic resistance including antibiotic stewardship. Surveillance to antibiotic resistance is of importance to aid in planning and implementing infection prevention and control measures. The study was conducted to assess the resistance pattern to cefepime, clindamycin and meropenem, which are reserved antibiotics for use at tertiary hospitals in Tanzania Methods A Hospital-based antibiotic resistance surveillance was conducted between July and November 2019 using 201 consecutively selected clinical isolates at Muhimbili National Hospital and Bugando Medical Center, Tanzania. All organisms isolated were identified based on colony morphology, Gram staining and relevant biochemical tests. Antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed on Muller-Hinton agar using Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method. Antibiotic susceptibility on the selected antibiotic discs (cefepime, clindamycin and meropenem) was performed according to the protocol by National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Results A total of 201 clinical samples were tested in this study. Urine (39.8%, n=80) and blood (35.3%, n=71) accounted for most of the collected samples followed by pus (16.9%, n=34). The overall bacterial resistance to clindamycin, cefipime and meropenem was 70.1%, 72.4% and 8.5% respectively. Most (88.9%) of Enterococcus spp were resistant to clindamycin. About 68.4% Staphylococcus aureus isolates were resistant to clindamycin whereby 56.3%, 75.6%, 93.8% and 100% of the tested Escherichia coli , Klebsiella spp , Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter cloacae respectively, were cefepime resistant. About 8.5% of isolated Klebsiella spp were resistant and 6.4% had intermediate susceptibility to meropenem. Also , Pseudomonas aeruginosa was resistant by 31.2% and 25% had intermediate susceptibility to meropenem. All Acinetobacter baumannii and Proteus spp (both 100.0%, n=4) were susceptible to meropenem. Conclusion The overall bacterial resistance to clindamycin and cefepime is high and low in meropenem. Henceforth, culture and susceptibility results should be used to guide the use of these antibiotics. Antibiotics with low resistance rate should be introduced to the reserve category and continuous antibiotic surveillance is warranted. |
