Abstract

Over the last few years, there has been a decrease in amount of effective antibiotics, coincide with the lack of newantibiotics relevant for the treatment of Gram negative multi-drug resistant organisms infections. This problem can beovercome by the assessment and re-introduction of old antibiotics such as fosfomycin. Fosfomycin is a broad spectrumantibiotic that is bactericidal. This study aimed to find out the sensitivity pattern of clinical isolate multi-drug resistantGram negative bacteria to fosfomycin with descriptive cross sectional method. The sample used in this study wasclinical isolates collection of Microbiology Laboratory Faculty of Medicine, University of Riau from Hospitals inPekanbaru. The result showedsensitivity to fosfomycin Escherichia coli producing ESBL (88%), Klebsiella pneumoniaeproducing ESBL (95%), Acinotobacter baumannii resistant meropenem (27%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistantmeropenem (36%) and K.pneumoniae resistant meropenem (70%). Fosfomycin can be used as alternative therapy forinfections caused by Gram-negative Multi-drug resistant organisms.

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