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. 2004 Jul;48(7):2431–2436. doi: 10.1128/AAC.48.7.2431-2436.2004

TABLE 1.

In vitro susceptibilities to 10 antimicrobial agents for clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa collected from 1999 to 2002a

Antimicrobial agent(s) Yr % Susceptible
% Intermediate
% Resistant
Non-ICU ICU NH OP Combined Non-ICU ICU NH OP Combined Non-ICU ICU NH OP Combined
Amikacin 1999 86.0 91.3 93.4 88.6 87.7 3.9 4.8 5.3 4.3 4.1 10.1 3.9 1.3 7.1 8.2
2000 88.9 87.9 92.3 83.8 86.8 4.6 7.0 3.1 6.6 5.7 6.4 5.1 4.6 9.6 7.5
2001 91.8 89.5 95.2 82.1 88.7 3.8 3.4 3.1 5.8 4.3 4.4 7.2 1.7 12.1 6.9
2002 92.1 89.6 93.0 88.5 90.8 3.4 4.5 4.8 4.5 4.0 4.5 5.9 2.2 7.0 5.2
1999-2002 90.6 89.4 94.0 85.4 89.0 3.8 4.8 4.0 5.4 4.4 5.5 5.7 2.0 9.2 6.6
Cefepime 1999 75.6 79.5 81.6 82.7 78.4 13.3 13.5 17.1 11.7 12.9 11.1 7.0 1.3 5.6 8.8
2000 75.3 66.9 76.9 78.5 75.3 13.1 17.3 15.4 12.4 13.5 11.6 15.7 7.7 9.1 11.2
2001 77.3 73.4 73.1 78.8 77.0 13.5 14.9 19.3 12.6 13.8 9.2 11.7 7.6 8.6 9.2
2002 75.7 64.2 72.9 83.4 76.4 14.9 19.0 18.4 10.6 14.3 9.4 16.8 8.7 6.0 9.2
1999-2002 76.1 69.6 73.3 80.7 76.6 13.9 16.7 18.7 11.8 13.8 10.0 13.7 7.9 7.5 9.5
Ceftazidime 1999 77.9 83.2 92.1 86.9 81.5 5.2 4.5 3.9 4.7 4.9 17.0 12.4 3.9 8.4 13.6
2000 76.9 72.9 84.6 86.1 79.9 7.7 8.1 3.1 4.7 6.6 15.4 19.0 12.3 9.2 13.5
2001 75.2 72.2 57.0 83.5 76.2 11.1 9.6 26.3 6.3 10.6 13.6 18.2 16.7 10.2 13.2
2002 75.0 65.0 64.0 85.8 76.3 11.9 13.5 22.6 7.2 11.4 13.1 21.6 13.4 6.9 12.3
1999-2002 75.8 71.5 62.1 85.3 77.6 10.0 9.8 23.3 6.1 9.4 14.2 18.7 14.6 8.7 13.0
Ciprofloxacin 1999 61.6 74.4 60.5 62.3 63.8 10.5 6.9 6.6 10.1 9.8 27.9 18.8 32.9 27.6 26.5
2000 62.4 66.6 69.2 66.6 64.7 6.7 4.5 1.5 7.7 6.7 30.9 28.9 29.2 25.7 28.6
2001 60.5 67.5 43.0 64.4 61.1 5.8 5.1 8.6 8.4 6.8 33.6 27.3 48.4 27.3 32.1
2002 59.6 57.9 44.1 66.5 60.4 5.4 4.3 10.4 6.4 5.9 35.0 37.8 45.5 27.1 33.7
1999-2002 60.7 65.0 44.7 65.4 61.9 6.4 5.0 9.2 7.7 6.8 32.9 30.1 46.0 26.9 31.3
Gentamicin 1999 71.9 73.0 69.7 70.9 71.8 9.9 10.3 18.4 10.3 10.2 18.2 16.7 11.8 18.8 18.0
2000 69.3 63.3 83.1 67.5 67.8 9.0 9.3 4.6 10.5 9.6 21.7 27.4 12.3 21.9 22.6
2001 74.9 75.3 68.4 67.1 72.0 8.3 6.1 13.2 10.0 9.0 16.8 18.6 18.4 23.0 19.0
2002 72.9 69.4 65.2 76.0 72.9 10.8 8.4 16.4 9.2 10.4 16.3 22.1 18.4 14.8 16.7
1999-2002 72.8 70.1 67.2 70.7 71.5 9.6 8.3 14.7 9.9 9.8 17.6 21.6 18.1 19.5 18.7
Imipenem 1999 76.7 80.4 85.5 83.6 79.4 6.0 3.9 3.9 6.8 5.9 17.3 15.7 10.5 9.5 14.7
2000 77.8 73.5 87.7 86.4 80.6 4.5 5.6 1.5 4.0 4.4 17.7 20.8 10.8 9.6 15.0
2001 79.0 75.8 70.1 84.5 79.7 7.4 5.1 18.4 4.7 7.1 13.7 19.2 11.5 10.8 13.1
2002 76.7 68.2 71.0 86.6 78.2 7.7 5.0 18.2 5.1 7.4 15.6 26.8 10.8 8.3 14.4
1999-2002 77.6 73.3 71.4 85.5 79.3 6.8 5.0 17.5 4.9 6.5 15.6 21.7 11.1 9.5 14.2
Piperacillin 1999 81.1 85.6 94.7 90.1 84.6 -b - - - - 18.9 14.4 5.3 9.9 15.4
2000 80.8 77.0 84.6 88.4 83.2 - - - - - 19.2 23.0 15.4 11.6 16.8
2001 83.5 77.2 82.2 87.1 83.9 - - - - - 16.5 22.8 17.8 12.9 16.1
2002 83.5 73.5 82.9 91.1 84.5 - - - - - 16.5 26.5 17.1 8.9 15.5
1999-2002 82.7 77.1 83.0 89.1 84.1 - - - - - 17.3 22.9 17.0 10.9 15.9
Piperacillin-tazobactam 1999 83.2 88.8 98.7 92.7 87.0 - - - - - 16.8 11.2 1.3 7.3 13.0
2000 85.3 84.5 92.3 91.2 87.5 - - - - - 14.7 15.5 7.7 8.8 12.5
2001 89.3 85.9 88.9 90.9 89.4 - - - - - 10.7 14.1 11.1 9.1 10.6
2002 89.3 85.1 89.6 94.3 90.3 - - - - - 10.7 14.9 10.4 5.7 9.7
1999-2002 87.8 85.7 89.6 92.3 89.1 - - - - - 12.2 14.3 10.4 7.7 10.9
Ticarcillin-clavulanate 1999 70.3 72.1 88.2 76.7 72.6 - - - - - 29.7 27.9 11.8 23.3 27.4
2000 68.9 65.1 78.5 79.6 72.5 - - - - - 31.1 34.9 21.5 20.4 27.5
2001 65.8 65.6 44.5 77.7 68.0 - - - - - 34.2 34.4 55.5 22.3 32.0
2002 65.8 56.9 50.7 80.1 67.9 - - - - - 34.2 43.1 49.3 19.9 32.1
1999-2002 66.9 63.4 49.7 78.8 69.4 - - - - - 33.1 36.6 50.3 21.2 30.6
Tobramycin 1999 87.6 88.1 94.7 85.6 87.2 2.0 1.5 1.3 2.8 2.1 10.4 10.5 3.9 11.6 10.7
2000 84.2 79.2 90.8 84.9 83.8 2.4 1.4 1.5 3.0 2.5 13.4 19.5 7.7 12.1 13.8
2001 85.8 84.7 80.4 81.5 83.9 2.0 0.7 5.1 3.3 2.5 12.2 14.6 14.4 15.2 13.5
2002 86.4 82.4 83.8 89.0 86.5 1.5 1.0 2.4 1.9 1.7 12.1 16.6 13.9 9.1 11.8
1999-2002 86.0 83.1 82.7 85.3 85.3 1.9 1.1 3.6 2.7 2.1 12.1 15.8 13.7 12.0 12.6
a

The percentages of susceptible, intermediate, and resistant isolates according to NCCLS breakpoints are shown. P. aeruginosa isolates were collected from non-ICU patients, ICU patients, nursing home (NH) patients, outpatients (OP), and all patients combined. The total numbers of isolates collected from non-ICU patients, ICU patients, NH patients, OP, and all patients from 1999 to 2002 follow: in 1999, 3,388, 963, 76, 1,847, and 6,274, respectively; in 2000, 4,442, 1,391, 65, 3,728, and 9,626, respectively; in 2001, 7,923, 1,577, 1,185, 4,975, and 15,660, respectively; in 2002, 9,896, 2,163, 1,269, 5,444, and 18,772, respectively. For all isolates collected in 1999 to 2002, the total numbers of isolates collected from non-ICU patients, ICU patients, NH patients, OP, and all patients combined were 25,649, 6,094, 2,595, 15,994, and 50,332, respectively.

b

-, NCCLS breakpoints for the susceptible, intermediate, and resistant categories unavailable.