Determination of Antibiotic Resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Isolated from Clinical Patients in Kahramanmaras

In this study, the resistance and sensitivity of Klebsiella pneumoniae against the antibiotics used in treatment of infectious diseases was investigated. For this purpose, 51 of K. pneumoniae strain were isolated from the clinical patients in Kahramanmaras and their resistance condition to some antibiotics was determined. As a result, K. pneumoniae showedresistance to ticarcilline, penicillin, and ampicillin/sulbactam which are the member of Beta lactam antibiotics were found as 93.63%, 91.48% and 80.38%, respectively. On the other hand, K. pneumoniae showed the least resistance against the aminoglicoside antibiotics such as amikacin (52.89%), streptomycin (64.95%) and gentamicin (67.65%). The resistance to cephalosporins like cefotaxime (74.02%) and ceftazidime (74.26%) were also detected considerably high.