Drug sensitivity and utilization profile of the patients suffering from upper respiratory tract infection: an observational study

Abstract

Aim:to analyze the drug sensitivity and drug utilization profile of the patients suffering from upper respiratory tract infection.Materials and Methods:The study was carried out retrospectively by Department of pharmacologyafter analyzing the copies of prescriptions of patients who had visited the O.P.D. of the ENT department of Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital, Gaya, India from one year.Results:majority of the patients were male 58.5% and rest 41.5% were female. Gram negative organisms are detected in (70.5%), Gram positive organisms detected (21.0%), and no organism detected (8.5%) of the swab samples.Conclusion:gram positive organisms were resistant to benzyl penicillin or ampicillin, clindamycin, ciprofloxacin or levofloxacin and sensitive to tetracycline, gentamicin, linezolid. Gram negative organisms were resistant to ampicillin, amoxyclav and sensitive to pipracillin or tazobactum, cefoperazone, amikacin, gentamicin, imipenem, cefepime, ciprofloxacin.

Keywords: couture, throat swab, gram positive, gram negative, throat infection