Antimicrobial resistance in India

Overall, the emergence of infections by antibiotic resistant Gram positive and Gram negative microbes is on a great rise, taking a note on Escherichia coli, which is an increasing global concern for the resistance to antibiotics and in India the resistance is found to be more than 80% for these classes of antibiotics. When 66% surgical infections are caused by Gram negative bacilli, a study reported in 2013 that 13% of the E.Coli strain showed resistance to the last line of therapy antibiotics, such as Carbapenems. Likewise, an increased emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), causing 54.8% surgical infections, was documented in India, and a steep rise in resistance was found from an isolation percentage of 29% in 2009 to 47% in 2014 from private labs [5].

Overall, the emergence of infections by antibiotic resistant Gram positive and Gram negative microbes is on a great rise, taking a note on Escherichia coli, which is an increasing global concern for the resistance to antibiotics and in India the resistance is found to be more than 80% for these classes of antibiotics. When 66% surgical infections are caused by Gram negative bacilli, a study reported in 2013 that 13% of the E.Coli strain showed resistance to the last line of therapy antibiotics, such as Carbapenems. Likewise, an increased emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), causing 54.8% surgical infections, was documented in India, and a steep rise in resistance was found from an isolation percentage of 29% in 2009 to 47% in 2014 from private labs [5].