Frequency and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Diabetic Foot Infection of Patients from Bandar Abbas District, Southern Iran

Diabetic foot infection is among the most common complications of diabetes mellitus which significantly causes hospitalization and is the most prevalent etiology of nontraumatic amputation worldwide. The current study aimed at assessing the frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of diabetic foot infection of patients from the Bandar Abbas area, in the south of Iran. In this study, a total of 83 diabetic patients with diabetic infected foot wounds referring to Shahid Mohammadi Hospital, Bandar Abbas, from 2017 to 2018 were assessed. Samples were obtained from wound sites and evaluated by aerobic culture and also an antibiogram test for antibiotic susceptibility. Factors including age, sex, type of diabetes, the medication used for diabetes, previous history of diabetic foot infection, duration of wound incidence, fever, and laboratory indices were recorded for each subject. The most prevalent detected bacteria wereEscherichia coli(20.5%),Enterococcus sp.(16.9%),Klebsiella sp.(12%),Staphylococcus aureus(8.4%),Enterobacter sp.(7.2%), andAcinetobacter sp.(6%). The results of antibiogram tests revealed the most and the least antibiotic sensitivity forE. coli sp.as meropenem and ciprofloxacin, forEnterococcus sp.as gentamicin and ciprofloxacin, forKlebsiella sp.as amikacin and cotrimoxazole, and forEnterobacter sp.as cotrimoxazole and both amikacin and ciprofloxacin.Staphylococcus aureuswas sensitive to vancomycin and doxycycline, andAcinetobacter sp. was 100% resistant to all antibiotics except amikacin and gentamycin. A significant statistical association was found between the C-reactive protein and the patients' diabetic foot infection organisms (P=0.019). Findings of the study revealedE. coli sp.as the most common bacteria which are infecting the foot lesions in the studied population. The highest antibiotic susceptibility was seen for vancomycin, linezolid, and carbapenem.