Abstract

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50 participants. A total of 17 different bacterial species were identified from 192 bacteria isolated and 113 (58.9%) bacterial isolates were cultured. Staphylococcus species 62 (32.3%) especially Staphylococcus aureus (21.1%) and Proteus mirabilis 29 (15.1%) were the most prevalent Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria respectively. The isolates were more susceptible to vancomycin, meropenem, ofloxacin and ciprofloxacin, and most resistant to tetracycline, cotrimoxazole, cefuroxime, augmentin and ceftazidime. Meropenem, vancomycin and ofloxacin are the most active antibiotics for effective treatment of Staphylococcus aureus and Proteus spp. who has been identified as the most common bacteria cultured from ENT infectious samples in our region

Keywords: Ear, Nose, and Throat; Bacterial infection; Antibiotic susceptibility; Empirical Antibiotics