A Bacteriological Study of Intertrigo Morubagal Raghavendra Rao 1 , Vinay Kumar Vasimalli 2 , Ranjitha Shankare Gowda 1 , SatyaSai Badvet 1 and Pooja Patrapanda Belliappa 1 * 1 Department of Microbiology, JSS Medical College and Hospital, M.G Road, Mysuru - 570 004, India. 2 Department of Microbiology, Maheshwara Medical College and Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Abstract The study was taken up to identfy the various bacterial agents causing intertrigo of feet and to determine the antmicrobial sensitvity patern of the isolated bacterial agents. A total of 75 pus samples were collected from infected toe, web space infecton by using sterile swabs.Samples were inoculated into Blood agar and MacConkey agar for the bacterial isolaton and antbiotc susceptbility testng was performed as per CLSI Guidelines. Out of 75 samples examined 38 were from male patents and 37 were collected from female patents. 101 diferent types of bacteria were grown in the present study. Among them38 Gram-PositveCocci (GPC) and 63 Gram-Negatve Bacilli (GNB). Of 38 Gram positve cocci isolated, Staphylococcus aureuswere19 (18.81%), followed by Coagulase negatve staphylococcus (CONS) 12 (11.88%) and Streptococcus spp7 (6.93%). Of 63 Gram negatve bacilli isolated Pseudomonas were19 (18.81%), followed by Proteus 16 (15.84%) and Klebsiella13 (12.87%). 25.8% Staphylococcus sppare Methecillin Resistant (MR) strains. Among the Gram negatve bacteria 9.25% of the strains were showing resistance to Colistn or Tigecycline. It is known fact that diferent microbes and factors play very important role in lesions of toe web space. In the present study 25.8% of Staphylococcus species and 9.25% of Gram negatve bacteria were mult drug resistant.Therefore, clinical and microbiologic studies are needed to help in the selecton of appropriate treatment, preventon of important complicatons and emergence of drug resistance pathogens. Keywords: Intertrigo, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus species, Pseudomonas, Mult drug resistant. *Correspondence: poojaponnamma28@gmail.com (Received: 09 October 2018; accepted: 20 November 2018) Citaton: Morubagal Raghavendra Rao, Vinay Kumar Vasimalli, Ranjitha Shankare Gowda, SatyaSai Badvet and Pooja Patrapanda Belliappa, A Bacteriological Study of Intertrigo, J Pure Appl Microbiol., 2018;12(4):1839-1844. htp://dx.doi.org/10.22207/ JPAM.12.4.18 © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access. This artcle is distributed under the terms of the Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distributon, and reproducton in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creatve Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Rao et al. J Pure Appl Microbiol, 12(4), 1839-1844 Dec. 2018 htp://dx.doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.12.4.18 Print ISSN: 0973-7510; Online ISSN: 2581-690X RESEARCH ARTICLE www.microbiologyjournal.org 1839 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology