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ABSTRACT

Incredible India represented by diff erent number of languages along with diff erent cultures and traditions. Every group has their own types of greetings like Namaskar, Good morning, Jai hind, Shashtriyakal and Asalam walekum. The era of antimicrobial resistance become question of public health threat for 21st century and proving futile day by day. The emergence of 3rd and 4th generation cephalosporins and carbapenem resistance is critically important for physicians since these are the last-line antimicrobials available for treating life-threatening infections. However, on daily basis everyone used these salutations irrespective of their professions. With the evolution of new concept of whether these salutations can be associated with antimicrobial resistance. The aim of our study was isolation, identifi cation and antibiogram pa" ern of diff erent salutations associated with diff erent cultures of India. Out of total 75 salutations samples collected from 15 health care workers of IVRI, Izatnagar, Bareilly, 30 (40%) were positive on blood agar on initial screening. Staphylococcus aureus with 7 (23.3%) isolates was the most common organism followed by Streptococcus species 1(3.33%). Five (16.66%) Staphylococcus aureus isolates were observed to be resistant to more than 3 classes of antibiotics. Overall, high resistance was reported towards ampicillin (75%), tetracycline (62.5%) followed by tigecycline (50%), gentamicin (50%) and ceftazidime (37.5%). On the other hand, all isolates (100%) were sensitive to chloramphenicol and imipenem. The study highlighted association between antimicrobial resistance of oral microbes with diff erent type of salutations.
Keywords: AMR, antibiogram, India, oral microbes, salutations