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.
Highlights
Wound infections are an emerging medical problem worldwide, frequently neglected in under-resourced countries
According to locally available resources, antimicrobial resistance testing was performed through disk diffusion, which guided the treatment of the wound infections
One of the most common bacteria found in wound infections is S. aureus [3,5,10,11,12], which was most frequently identified in our study; we detected no methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
Summary
Wound infections are an emerging medical problem worldwide, frequently neglected in under-resourced countries. The Study Since 2000, the Institute for Medical Microbiology of the University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, has assisted the running of the bacteriology laboratory in St. Martin de Porres Hospital in Eikwe, Ghana [2]. During March–July 2014, we conducted a prospective study at St. Martin de Porres Hospital, performing bacteriologic investigations of infected wounds of inpatients and outpatients during routine working hours (Monday–Friday, 8 am–4 pm).
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