Abstract
Antibiotic resistance is a challenge in medical problems. One prevalence of resistance that tends to expand globally is against ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae, a group of bacteria capable of destroying beta-lactam antibiotics. The known ESBL producing bacteria are E. coli and K. pneumoniae. This study aims to compare the sensitivity of quinolone and carbapenem antibiotics to ESBL-producing bacteria based on data obtained from Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia through 2018-2019. Using the Vitek 2® Compact identification method, the results showed that the prevalence of E. coli and K. pneumoniae ESBL was positive less than 5%. All of the ESBL–producing E. coli came from urine specimens, while ESBLproducing K. pneumoniae came from different types of specimens which are sputum and blood. Most prevalence comes in the age range >50 years with female gender. In general, antibiotic sensitivity to the quinolones was less than 50% against ESBL-producing E. coli. Meanwhile, the sensitivity of carbapenem antibiotics reached 100% both against ESBL-producing E.coli and K.pneumoniae.
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