Altaf Ali Mangi, Muhammad Ali Ghoto, Abdullah Dayo, Ayaz Ali, Naheed Memon, Awais Ahmed Juno, Fouzia Panhwar, Abdul Aziz Babar, Khalida Unar, Ghulam Nabi Tatri.
Evaluation of the Irrational Use of Antibiotic and Correlation of Economical Constraints to Antibiotic Resistance.
Isra Med J Jan ;9(2):106-10.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the irrational use of antibiotic and correlation of economical constraints to antibiotic resistance. STUDY DESIGN: A Cross sectional Study nd th PLACE AND DURATION: Private clinics of different districts of Baluchistan from 2 October 2016 to 30 December 2016. METHODOLOGY: Patients who showed antibiotic resistance and were belonging to the poor economical background and they were selected using WHO criteria of poverty which is [low pay under U.S.$2] Well structured Questionnaire was administered to about 500 poor patients and their blood isolates were also collected out of that 400 blood isolates showed resistant when examined in labs only their filled questionnaire an prescriptions were included that was 80% of total samples. RESULTS: From 400 participants the number of male subjects was (60%) and the number of female patients was (40%) they showed antibiotic resistance such as16% males showed resistance to penicillin and 15.26% females, to cephalosporin40.4% males and 38.75% females showed resistance, 7.9% males and 6.8% females showed resistance to macrolides and besides this 5.4% male and 11.8% females showed resistance to different other classes of antibiotics. CONCLUSION: It was concluded that patients due to economical hardships were unable to continue the required time period of therapy and were quitting the therapy in half and irrational way and that was one of the factor caused the antibiotic resistance.

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