Table 7.
Blood culture isolates and antibiotic resistance patterns
| Organisms isolated | Number | Resistant to TMP-SMX | Resistance to selected antibiotics |
| S. pneumoniae | 4 | 1 (only 1 tested) | Pen sensitive 1; intermediate resistance 2; resistant 1 |
| Gram negative respiratory H. influenzae | 2 | 2 (100%) | Amp 0 (0%) |
| S. aureus* | 3 | 2 (66.6%) | Clox – 2 (77.3%) Gent 2 (81.8%), Amik – 0 |
| Enterobacteriacae† | 13 | 8 (72.3%) | CTX – 6 (54.5%); Gent – 6 (54.5%); Amik – 1 (10%); PTZ -10 (31.3%) Mero – 0 |
| Acinetobacter | 1 | 0 | CTX – 0; gent – 0 |
| Pseudomonas | 1 | 1 | PTZ -1; Gent – 1; Amik – 1 |
| Shigella flexneri | 1 | 1 | Amp – 0; gent -1 |
*No data for one isolate
† Two isolates had no data for for cefotaxime, gentamicin and TMP-SMX; Three had no data for amikacin
Clox – cloxacillin; Gent – gentamicin; Amik – amikacin; Pen – penicillin; Amp – ampicillin; CTX – cefotaxime; PTZ – piperacillin/tazobactam; Mero – meropenem