STRUCTURE AND FREQUENCY OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The article presents data on the incidence of nosocomial infection among children and adolescents. We studied also the resistance of isolated pathogens to various antibiotics. The age of the examined patients, in which persons with nosocomial respiratory and intestinal infections were most often detected, was 11-13 years. Antibiotic resistance among the causative agents of nosocomial respiratory infections is more often detected in those microorganisms that are dominant in the development of the epidemic process. At the same time, the main etiological factors of hospital (nosocomial) infections were gram-negative bacteria, which occurred both in isolated form and were isolated in the form of associations, among which combinations of gram-negative bacteria were more common, in particular Pseudomonas aeruginosa + Klebsiella pneumoniae - 25.0± 9.68% of cases. At the same time, bacterial associations with the presence of exactly 2 microorganisms were more often recorded. Microorganisms S. aureus and K. pneumoniae showed the greatest resistance to aminoglycosides and cephalosporin.