Antibiotic sensitivity patterns of hospital & community isolates in the Maltese Islands

Abstract

The treatment of infectious disease is, in the great majority of cases, initiated blindly. In the hospital setting this is normally because the condition requires immediate therapy on a best guess approach, pending feedback from the microbiology laboratory. Community infections, particularly if not of a serious nature, are commonly treated without concurrent bacteriological investigation. It is therefore imperative that clinicians should have a detailed and up-to-date knowledge of species prevalence and local antibiotic susceptibility data in their area of practice. The aim of this poster is to present for this first a comprehensive set of data in order to assist clinicians reach better judgement in their antibiotic prescription habits.