Antibiotic Sensitivity of Staphylococci in Furunculosis
(Boil)
Title: Species composition and antibiotic sensitivity
of staphylococci isolated from patients with furunculosis
Authors: Kutsyk RV, Kurovets' LM.
Publication: Mikrobiol Z. 2002 Sep-Oct;64(5):59-62.
The authors studied the biological properties and susceptibility
to antibiotics of 54 strains of Staphylococcus bacteria isolated
from furunculosis or boil lesions.
They found that:
Staphylococcus strain |
% of cases |
S. aureus |
35.2 ± 6.5 |
S. epidermidis |
31.5 ± 6.32 |
S. warneri |
16.7 ± 5.08 |
S. hominis |
7.4 ± 3.56 |
S. haemolyticus and S. saprophyticus |
3.7 ± 2.57 |
S. lentus |
1.9 ± 1.86 |
Methicillin-resistant staphylococci were found in 25.92% of patients
with boil. Resistance to other antibiotics such as erythromycin,
clarythromycin, cephtriaxon, pephloxacyne, tetracycline, doxycycline,
levomycetine and phosphomycine, had also been seen.
Based on studies on the ability of these Staphylococcus bacteria
to resist antibiotics, the authors recommended that cephasoline
be used for treating boils, with tobramycin as reserve antibiotics.
The authors also noted that they made autovaccines (also called
autogenous vaccines, or vaccines derived from a culture of the
patient’s own bacteria) for patients’ treatment.
