Abstract

In this study, 134 patients including 80 adult men and 54 women treated at Danang Oncology Hospital from January 2019 to July 2021 had specimen culture results found Staphylococcus aureus was investigated. All study patient data was collected according to an established uniform form on Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software and processed by Python programming language. We found that 76.1% of patients infected with S. aureus during this time were MRSA. Of which, 100% MRSA and MSSA isolates were resistant to Amoxicillin, 61.2% to Cefuroxime. Multi-resistance and broad-spectrum multi-resistance to other antibiotics belonging to the Carpapenem, Quinolone and Aminoglycoside groups were recorded in most isolated S. aureus. The results showed that S. aureus causing bacterial infection at Danang Oncology Hospital during the survey period had a high antibiotic resistance rate.

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