Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Infected Wounds, Ghana, 2014

Abstract

Wound infections are an emerging medical problem worldwide, frequently neglected in under-resourced countries. Bacterial culture and antimicrobial drug resistance testing of infected wounds in patients in a rural hospital in Ghana identified no methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae but identified high combined resistance of Enterobacteriaceae against third-generation cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones.

Keywords

• wound infections
• Ghana
• rural
• gram-negative bacteria
• Enterobacteriaceae
• polymicrobial infections