Prevalence and Antibacterial Susceptibility Pattern of Aerobic Bacterial Pathogens isolated from Pus-A Retrospective Study from a Teaching Hospital in Tamilnadu, India

Wound infections are generally characterized by various local inflammation, usually with pus formation, in most cases which are caused by one of the pyogenic bacteria which includes Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas sp., Klebsiella spp., E. coli, etc., and which results the accumulation of dead leukocytes and infectious agent generally known as pus(Bowler et al., 2001). Wound infections cause a significant morbidity and mortality and also which is considered to be one of the most important and common hospital acquired infections worldwide. Infection in wound can have an adverse impact on the patient’s quality of life and also infected wounds are likely to be more painful, hypersensitive and odorous, resulting in increased discomfort and inconvenience for the patient (Kotz et al., 2009).