Occurrence and antimicrobial profiling of K. pneumoniae in burn patients at burn ward, Allied Hospital, Faisalabad

Background: Klebsiella pneumonia is an opportunistic pathogen causing a great array of illness both in humans and animals responsible for high mortality rate burn patients. Aim: To determine occurrence K. wound patients to check antibiotic sensitivity pneumoniae. Methods: A retrospective cross sectional study was conducted 50 samples from Allied Hospital Faisalabad were taken isolation, identification resistance pattern pneumonia. Samples then inoculated on MacConkey agar pure colonies. For gram staining biochemical test performed. Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion technique used determined profiling K.pneumoniae against various disks. Results: On mucoid, lactose fermenting pink colonies pneumoniae observed. Among the tests, catalase, citrate VP found be positive whereas indole methyl red tests negative. Occurrence 28% Antibiotic showed that highly sensitive Imipenem (88.94%), meropenem (79.32%), ertapenem (75%), moderately aminoglycoside group (amikacin 59.13%, gentamicin 52.40%, Netilmicin 50.96%), piperacillin-tazobactam (53.84%) mildly tobramycin (49.51%), nitrofurantoin (48.07%), levofloxacin (45.19%) Conclusion: other negative bacilli are frequently associated with nosocomial infection. Furthermore, most isolates units MDR Keywords: Opportunistic pathogen, sensitive, Burn, Mortality, Nosocomial.