Patients with asthma and smokers: study compared bacteriological

Abstract

The study includes isolation and identification of bacteria from sputum of three groups :the first (85 patients with asthma) ; the second (85 smokers) and the third (50 persons Healthy in appearance); a control group for the period from 1/1/2008 to 1/1/2009 in Baquba Hospital . The results show that Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria are dominant in the first and second groups with ratio %32.9 in comparison with the healthy group% 8 and Streptococcus viridians bacteria which presents %30 in the same group. The bacterial isolations differ in their sensitivity and resistance to some antibiotics; it was found that most of them were sensitive to Ciprofloxacin and Augmentin and resistant toAmpicillin Gentamycin.