title: Antibiotic susceptibility of microorganisms at a general hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine susceptibility patterns of microorganisms to antibiotics in a large general hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical samples received in the laboratory were processed according to standard methods. Susceptibility to antibiotics was done using a disk diffusion technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five hundred and fifty-one samples from urine, wound, reproductive tract and other body fluids were analysed. The most frequently isolated pathogens (n=586) were Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Most of the organisms were sensitive to ciprofloxacin, perfloxacin, cefuroxime, ceftriaxone and azithromycin but were resistant to ampicillin, cotrimoxazole and penicillin. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was multi-resistant. The susceptibility pattern obtained at this hospital is similar to what obtains in teaching hospitals in Nigeria.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Microorganisms isolated at this hospital are more sensitive to newer antibiotics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health & Primary Care, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja, Nigeria. olumuyiwa88@hotmail.com
authors.forename: O O
authors.initials: OO
authors.lastname: Odusanya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009549:Nigeria
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents