EVALUATION OF ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY PATTERN IN ACUTE TONSILLITIS

Abstract

Background: Tonsillitis is a frequent condition noticed in the ENT department of every hospital. One out of every 10 children visiting the ENT OPD, suffer from acute tonsillitis.

Methods: This was a prospective observational study conducted on patients coming with a history of throat pain, pain on swallowing, fever, body ache and other constitutional symptoms.

Results: Antibiotic resistance was seen in case of the commonly used antibiotics like ampicillin, amoxicillin, Amoxicillin+Clavulanic acid. Cephalosporins were less commonly used antibiotics and showed resistance in 78.00% cases. Cotrimoxazole showed about 16.00% resistant cases. The less commonly used antibiotic was vancomycin however, showed high sensitivity (100%) followed by Linezolid (92.00%) and Clindamycin (82.00%). Erythromycin showed 76% sensitivity while ciprofloxacin showed a low sensitivity of 40.00% followed by Cephalosporins (22.0%).

Conclusion: The antibiotic sensitivity pattern could revolutionize the management of chronic tonsillitis.

Keywords: Acute tonsillitis, Antibiotics, Sensitivity