As Staphylococcus
aureus remain the predominant microbial flora of the human respiratory tract
and skin; it also account for the most human integumental infections and
life-threatening systemic diseases especially in orthopaedic surgical site
infections (SSIs).
This study
evaluates the antibiotics susceptibility pattern of Staphylococcus aureus
isolates from orthopaedic patients to various antimicrobial agents used in
the treatment of surgical sites infection in Ahmadu Bello University Teaching
Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, Nigeria.
A total of 100
clinical swab samples of surgical sites were collected from orthopaedic
patients in ABUTH, Zaria, Nigeria out of which 39 were identified as
Staphylococcus aureus using API STAPH identification kit.
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