[Profile and sensitivity to antibiotics of 115 staphylococcal strains implicated in septicemia in a Tunisian general hospital].

Staphylococci remain among the main responsible bacteria for septicemia. The resistance to antibiotics already makes a prognosis difficult. We carried out a study on Staphylococcus isolated from blood culture on 3 years in general hospital in Tunisia. We present the different species and their sensitivity to antibiotics. S. aureus is the predominant isolated species. S. epidermidis is essentially isolated in newborn intensive care unit. The meticillino-resistance concerns 14% of the whole strains and 5.2 of the S. aureus. No resistance is found as regard the vancomycin and the pristinamycin; ofloxacine is inactive on 14.8% of strains and the gentamicine on 11.3%. The resistance of staphylococci of our study is lower than the rates reported in southern Europe and in North America.