Background. Bacterial sepsis is amajor cause of illness in human immunodeficiency virus infected patients. There is scarce evidence\nabout sepsis among HIV patients in Ethiopia. This study aimed to determine the etiologic agents of bacterial sepsis and their\nantibiotic susceptibility patterns among HIV infected patients. Methods. A cross-sectional study was carried out from March 1\nto May 2, 2013. One hundred patients infected with HIV and suspected of having sepsis were included. Sociodemographic data\nwere collected by interview and blood sample was aseptically collected from study participants. All blood cultures were incubated\naerobically at 35âË?Ë?C and inspected daily for 7 days.Thepositive blood cultures were identified following the standard procedures and\nantimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using disk diffusion technique. Data was entered by Epi-info version 3.5.1 and\nanalysis was done using SPSS version 20. Results. Of the study participants, 31 (31%) confirmed bacterial sepsis. The major isolates\nwere 13 (13%) Staphylococcus aureus, 8 (8%) coagulates negative staphylococci, and 3 (3%) viridans streptococci. Majority of the\nisolates, 25 (80.6%), were multidrug resistant to two or more antimicrobial agents. Conclusions. Bacterial sepsis was a major cause\nof admission for HIV infected patients predominated by Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase negative staphylococci species and\nmost of the isolates were multidrug resistant.
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