Table 7.

Antimicrobial resistance rates of Staphylococcus aureus , Zambia, DRC, Mozambique and Tanzania (ref: [26,62,68-72])

Antibiotic	Resistance rate in different studies%(range)	Mean resistance n/N* (%)
Penicillin	90, 90, 85 (85–90)	291/329 (88)
Erythromycin	35, 5, 7 (5–35)	51/327 (16)
Clindamycin	22	10/46 (22)
Co-trimoxazole	31, 73 (31–73)	145/278 (52)
Chloramphenicol	37, 7 (7–37)	63/287 (22)
Gentamicin	5	9/182 (5)
Tetracycline	48, 28 (28–48)	56/147 (38)
MRSA	31, 16, 2, 27, 2, 8 (2–31)	317/2472 (13)

N*=Total number of isolates tested.