204 samples were collected from various body samples
during the year 2016. These 204 samples distributed as
follows: 133 from urine , 37 swabs of wounds and burns,
10 swabs from the ear and pharynx, 12 from feces, 8
from CSF, 4 from blood. This s
tudy distinctly showed that
gram negative bacilli were the most isolates 136 (67%)
while 68 isolates (33%) were gram positive bacteria .
E. coli dominated (39.68%) of the total gram negative
bacilli.
This study distinctly showed an increase in the ratio of
E. coli resistance to one or more types of antibiotics , we
found that E. coli resistance to all antibiotics except
specific and expensive antibiotics, and we found that its
complete resistance to the second ,third and fourth
generation of cephalosporins , resistance to specific and
antibiotics such as Imipenem.
Self-medication with antibiotics is a worldwide problem and led to several problems such as antimicrobial resistance. A descriptive cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was conducted in Latakia city. Among 259 participants, 204(78.8%) reported a
ntibiotics self-medication within past one year. Respiratory problems such as common cold were the main indication for self-medication with antibiotics (62.9%) and amoxicillin+ clavulanic acid was the most antibiotic commonly used (35.37%). The results of this study confirm that self-medication with antibiotics is a frequent problem in Latakia city.