Table 4.
Antimicrobial resistance profiles of bacterial isolates (n = 170) from pus swab samples taken from discharging ears study participants at Bahir Dar Regional Health Research Laboratory Center, 2015
| Bacterial isolates | Resistance pattern of antimicrobial agents (R %) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #T | AMC | AMP | CIP | CRO | CAF | SXT | GEN | AK | PEP | CAZ | |
| P. aeruginosa | 88 | 89.0 | 90.9 | 8 | 23.0 | 6.8 | 0.0 | 10.2 | 4.5 | 10.2 | 31.8 |
| Proteus spp. | 65 | 66.0 | 87.8 | 4.6 | 27.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 23.1 | 0.0 | 12.3 | 21.5 |
| E. coli | 7 | 71.4 | 85.7 | 14.3 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14 |
| K. pneumoniae | 10 | 89.9 | 100.0 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 0.0 | 10 | 20 |
| Total | 170 | 79 | 90 | 12 | 24.7 | 4.1 | 0.6 | 16.5 | 2.4 | 10.6 | 26.5 |
Key: #T number of isolates tested against each antimicrobial agent, R % percent of isolates resistance to antimicrobial agent, AMP ampecillin, AMC amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, CRO ceftriaxone, AK amikacin, GEN gentamycin, CAZ ceftazidime, PEP peperacillin