Table 2.
Distribution of Staphylococcus spp. isolated from chicken meat samples according to their species diversity and multidrug resistance pattern.
| Coagulase reaction | Staphylococcus spp. (n = isolates) | Antibiotics | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ampicillin-sulbactam | Chloramphenicol | Ciprofloxacin | Clindamycin | Erythromycin | Gentamycin | Methicillin | Oxacillin | Peniciilin | Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | Tetracycline | Vancomycin | ||
| Resistance Pattern | |||||||||||||
| Coagulase positive | S. aureus (3) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| S. hyicus (10) | 4 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | |
| S. intermedius (1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Coagulase negative | S. epidermidis (13) | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 3 |
| S. lugdunensis (15) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 4 | |
| S. hemolyticus (1) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| S. hominus (3) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
| S. lentus (1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| S. schleiferi (2) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. cohnii (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 49 | 46 | 40 | 27 | 37 | 47 | 33 | 47 | 20 |