TABLE 3.
Prevalences of multiple-antibiotic resistance among Acinetobacter strains isolated from different sites in the sewers at the hospital and the pharmaceutical plant
| Phenotype | % of isolates with phenotypea
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| Hospital (n = 180)
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Pharmaceutical plant (n = 205)
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| Site A (n = 38) | Site B (n = 78) | Site C (n = 64) | Site A (n = 76) | Site B (n = 72) | Site C (n = 57) | |
| Sensitivity | 44.7 | 44.9 | 64.1 | 68.4 | 31.9 | 8.8 |
| Resistance to one antibiotic | 52.6 | 51.3 | 29.7 | 21.1 | 12.5 | 28.1 |
| Resistance to two antibiotics | 2.6 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 10.5 | 19.4 | 24.6 |
| Resistance to three or more antibiotics | 0 | 1.3 | 4.7 | 0 | 36.1b | 38.6 |
a
n, number of isolates.
b
Statistically significant increase of multiple-antibiotic resistance at site B in comparison with site A (P < 0.001) (first three sampling times only).