Table 4.

Overall and comparative total in vitro percentage multiple antibiotic resistance rates and profiles of the diarrhoeagenic bacterial species towards the expired and unexpired paediatric antibiotics

% Total resistance of expired / unexpired antibiotics (mg 5ml-1)
Bacterial species	Type	1	25	3	4	5	7	8	10	% MAR	% Multiple antibiotic resistance profiles
E. coli [43]	E	81.3	86.1	81.4	65.1	55.8	46.5	53.5	76.7	35.5-93.5	35.5 [1], 38.7 [2], 51.6 [1], 54.8 [1], 58.1 [4], 61.3 [1], 64.5 [4], 67.7 [7], 71.0 [4], 74.2 [4], 77.4 [3], 80.6 [6], 83. 9 [2], 87. 1 [1], 90.3 [1], 93.5 [1]
	U	15.9		15.9	11.4	11.4	9.1	13.7	15.9	28.6-100	28.6 [4], 57.2 [2], 71.2 [2], 100 [2]
K. pneumoniae [16]	E	87.5	75.0	87.5	68.8	50.0	50.0	75.0	87.5	48.4-83.9	48.4 [1], 51.6 [1], 61.3 [1], 64.5 [1], 67.7 [1], 71.0 [1], 74.2 [1], 77.4 [1], 80.6 [2], 83.9 [3]
	U	31.3		18.8	25.0	0.0	0.0	12.5	25.0	28.6-57.2	28.6 [2], 42.9 [2], 57.2 [2]
Pr. mirabilis [12]	E	58.4	75.0	83.3	66.6	50.0	50.0	75.0	75.0	19.4-93.5	19.4 [1], 45.2 [2], 48.4 [1], 64.5 [1], 71.0 [1], 74.2 [1], 80.6 [3], 93.5 [1]
	U	25.0		25.0	41.7	25.0	25.0	41.7	41.7	28.6-100	28.6 [3], 57.2 [2], 71.4 [1], 100 [1]
S. aureus [11]	E	81.8	81.8	81.8	72.7	45.5	54.5	45.5	81.8	45.2-93.5	45.2 [1], 58.1 [1], 61.3 [1], 64.5 [1], 67.7 [2], 74.2 [1], 83.9 [2], 90.3 [1], 93.5 [1]
	U	9.1		18.2	9.1	9.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	57.2	57.2 [1]
Lactobacillus spp. [8]*	E	75.0	37.5	100	62.5	37.5	50.0	62.5	75.0	45.2-93.5	45.2 [1], 48.4 [1], 51.6 [1], 61.3 [1], 77.4 [1], 80.6 [2], 93.5 [1]
	U	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	12.5	12.5	28.6	28.6 [1]

Keys: 1 Throtal (erythromycin); 3 Zinnat (cefuroxime axetil); 4 Tambac (cefpodoxime proxetil); 5 Bactrim (sulfamethoxazole + trimethoprim); 7 Loxaprim (cotrimoxazole); 8 Refucil (griseofulvin); 10 Loxagyl (metronidazole), 25=(erythromycin); E=expired; U=unexpired.=non-diarrhoeagenic bacterial species