Santiesteban PM, Vidal TLA, Rodríguez FS, Casal MAX

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: bacteria resistance toward antimicrobial drugs is a natural phenomenon that has become an emergent problem around the world. The World Health Organization has declared the resistance toward antimicrobials a disease. There is a third group in the category of antibacterials: the reserve antibacterial agents. The medicines of this group do not have therapeutic alternatives and their usage is limited to reducing the risk of resistance emergence. Objective: to carry out a cross-sectional, descriptive study on the usage of reserve antibacterials and resistance. Materials and Methods: a cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out in the period from January to December 2015, taking into account the criteria standardized in the Handbook of Antibiotics Policy of the institution. The studied population was formed by all the clinical records obtained from the reports of the reserve antibacterials usage. The microorganisms isolated in the studied period and their susceptibility/resistance toward the reserve antimicrobials was also included. Results: it was evidenced that the most frequently isolated microorganisms were Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. Conclusions: the higher resistance patterns were found in the amoxicillin + sulbactam, being more suggestive toward the Escherichia coli and less important toward the Staphylococcus aureus. Recepime showed high resistance toward both microorganisms. The reserve antibiotics use may be considered satisfactory in the institution where the study was carried out.