Table 1.
Incidence of antibiotic resistance in the isolates of enteric bacteria.
| Antibiotics | Total no. of resistant isolates (%) | |||||
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| E. coli (n = 18) | Shigella (n = 11) | Citrobacter (n = 7) | Klebsiella (n = 4) | Miscellaneous (n = 29) | Total (n = 69) | |
| Penicillin | 7 (38.9) | 5 (45.5) | 5 (71.4) | 4 (100.0) | 22 (75.7) | 43 (63.8) |
| Ampicillin | 15 (83.3) | 9 (81.8) | 4 (57.1) | 3 (75.0) | 20 (69.0) | 51 (73.9) |
| Cefuroxime | 4 (22.2) | 5 (45.5) | 3 (42.9) | 2 (50.0) | 12 (41.4) | 26 (39.1) |
| Cefixime | 3 (16.7) | 1 (9.1) | 1 (14.2) | 2 (50.0) | 7 (24.1) | 14 (20.3) |
| Cefotaxime | 3 (16.7) | 2 (18.2) | 3 (42.9) | 0 (00.0) | 9 (31.0) | 17 (23.2) |
| Methicillin | 6 (33.3) | 6 (54.5) | 4 (57.1) | 4 (100.0) | 15 (51.7) | 35 (52.7) |
| Nalidixic Acid | 12 (66.7) | 10 (90.9) | 5 (71.4) | 4 (100.0) | 22 (75.9) | 53 (72.6) |
| Cotrimoxazole | 12 (66.7) | 6 (54.5) | 4 (57.1) | 3 (75.0) | 13 (44.8) | 34 (55.7) |
| Norfloxacin | 9 (50.0) | 5 (45.5) | 4 (57.1) | 2 (50.0) | 17 (58.6) | 37 (53.6) |
| Doxycycline | 4 (22.2) | 0 (00.0) | 1 (14.3) | 0 (00.0) | 4 (13.8) | 9 (13.0) |
| Tetracycline | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 4 (13.8) | 4 (5.8) |
| Nitrofurantoin | 0 (00.0) | 2 (18.2) | 1 (14.3) | 3 (75.0) | 3 (10.3) | 9 (13.0) |
| Chloramphenicol | 2 (11.1) | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 2 (50.0) | 5 (17.2) | 9 (13.0) |
| Streptomycin | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 3 (10.3) | 3 (4.4) |
n, number of isolates.