Table 2.
Antibiotic resistance patterns of Shigella and Salmonella isolate among children aged below 5 years with diarrhoea at NEMM Hospital, Hosanna town, South Ethiopia, 2017
| Isolate | No (%) of isolates resistance | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | AMP | GEN | KAN | NAL | CRO | SXT | CAF | NOR | CIP | |
| Shigella | 17 | 14 (82.4) | 13 (76.5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (17.6) | 11 (64.7) | 8 (47.1) | 0 (0) | 3 (17.6) |
| Salmonella | 2 | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (50) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Total | 19 | 16 (84.2) | 15 (78.9) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (15.8) | 12(63.2) | 8 (42.1) | 0 (0) | 3 (15.8) |
Key: AMP Ampicillin, TTC Tetracycline, GEN Gentamicin, KAN kanamycin, NAL Nalidixic acid, CRO ceftiraxone, SXT Trimethoprime-Sulphamethoxazole(co-trimoxazole), CAF Chloramphenicol, NOR Norfoloxacin, CIP Ciprofloxacin