ZHAO Chao-hui, GUO Zhao-wang, LUO Yu-ting, LIU Xi
Objective: To analyze clinical features and bacterial resistance of patients with Staphylococcus aureus (SA) and Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CNS) infection in a hospital, and to provide reference for clinical treatment of such patients. Methods: Patients with SA infection (n=151) and CNS infection (n=130) admitted to the Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University from October 2019 to September 2020 were collected as study subjects, and the underlying diseases, departmental distribution and source of specimens, as well as pathogenic characteristics of SA and CNS were analyzed. Results: The majority of patients with SA infection and CNS infection had certain underlying diseases, mainly as malignant tumor, diabetes mellitus and chronic renal failure. The patients with SA infection were mainly distributed in oncology department (28 cases, accounting for 18.54%), burns department (17 cases, accounting for 11.26%), ICU (16 cases, accounting for 10.60%), nephrology department (16 cases, accounting for 10.60%) and infection department (14 cases, accounting for 9.27%). The patients with CNS infection were mainly found in orthopedics department (24 cases, accounting for 18.46%), urology department (21 cases, accounting for 16.15%), nephrology department (13 cases, accounting for 10.00%) and oncology department (11 cases, accounting for 8.46%). SA was mainly detected in sputum (35 cases, accounting for 23.18%), blood (21 cases, accounting for 13.91%) and urine (11 cases, accounting for 7.28%), while CNS was mainly detected in urine (35 cases, accounting for 26.92%), blood (33 cases, accounting for 25.38%) and ascites (11 cases, accounting for 8.46%). Pathogenic findings showed that Staphylococcus epidermidis (67 cases, accounting for 51.54%) and Staphylococcus haemolyticus (24 cases, accounting for 18.46%) were mostly detected in CNS. The results of drug susceptibility test showed that the resistance rates of SA and CNS to vancomycin, tigecycline, linezolid, and quinupristin/dalfopristin were 0.00%, while the resistance rates to gentamicin, moxifloxacin, tetracycline, clindamycin and rifampicin were also low (less than 30.00%). The resistance rate of methicillin-resistant SA to penicillin-G, oxacillin, tetracycline, erythrocin, clindamycin and cefoxitin was significantly higher than that of methicillin-sensitive SA (P<0.05). Compared with oxacillin-resistant SA, oxacillin-resistant CNS had a higher resistance rate to moxifloxacin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin and compound sulfamethoxazole (P<0.05), and a lower resistance rate to tetracycline and erythromycin (P<0.05). Conclusion: Patients with SA infection and CNS infection in the hospital have similar underlying diseases, but are distributed in different departments with different sources of specimens. In addition, SA and CNS have much common in overall drug resistance characteristics, but there are more differences between methicillin-resistant SA and CNS. In clinical treatment of SA infection and CNS infection, the pathogenic species and their drug resistance characteristics should be clarified as far as possible to achieve better therapeutic effects.