Bacterial isolates of the respiratory tract infection and their current sensitivity pattern among patients attending Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was carried out to isolate and identify the common Bacteria causing respiratory tract infections among patients attending Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital between August and October, 2008, and the current sensitivity patterns of the isolated Bacteria to common commercially antibiotic prepared disc.. Forty three (43) Bacterial pathogens were isolated from two hundred sample (200) collected, Streptococcus pneumonia (25.6%) takes the highest percentage of occurrence, followed by Klebsiella pneumonia (20.9%), Escherichia coli (20.9%) and Staphylococcus aureus, (16.3%) respectively. Others include Proteus species (4.7%) Pseudomonas aerations  (4.7%), Haemophilus influenza (4.7%) and Serratra species (2.3%) as well. Age range between 20 – 29 and 30 – 39 takes the highest percentage of pathogen isolated. The sensitivity patterns of the isolated Bacterial to commercially antibiotic prepared disc indicated that drugs likes ceftriaxone, ceftazidine, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin gentamicin and chloramphenicol show activity on all the pathogens isolated.