MICROBIOLOGICAL REVIEW OF PLEURAL FLUID SAMPLES A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY.

Since the advent of antibiotics the microbial etiology of pleural space infections has changed. This can be due to patients related factors such as trauma, underlying disease or surgical procedures, or other reason can be due to methodological factors viz specimen collection, transport and its culture. For these reasons, several studies have found disagreeing findings in the spectrum of pathogens causing pleural space infection. The present study was carried out in department of Microbiology, MGM Medical College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India with the aimto review the microbiological profile of pleural fluid samples and to observe the antibiogram of the isolates in pleural fluid.