Table 2.
Antibiotic sensitivity of multidrug-resistant gram negative bacilli (n = 128)
| Antimicrobial agents | Resistance (%) among bacterial isolates | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acinetobacter spp (n = 52) | Pseudomonas spp (n = 27) | Klebsiella pneumoniae (n = 36) | Escherichiacoli (n = 7) | Enterobacter spp (n = 4) | Citrobacter spp (n = 2) | |
| Levofloxacin | 85 | 88 | 73 | 57 | 100 | 50 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 92 | 90 | 82 | 86 | 100 | 100 |
| Amikacin | 93 | 89 | 76 | 71 | 100 | 50 |
| Gentamycin | 93 | 89 | 79 | 71 | 100 | 50 |
| Tobramycin | – | 87 | – | – | – | – |
| Chloramphenicol | – | – | 73 | 57 | 100 | 0 |
| Cotrimoxazole | 90 | – | 73 | 71 | 100 | 50 |
| Ampicillin | – | – | – | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Piperacillin | 93 | 90 | 79 | 100 | 100 | |
| Piperacillin- Tazobactam | 86 | 82 | 73 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Amoxicillin-clavulanate | – | – | 76 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Ceftazidime | 93 | 92 | 92 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Cefotaxime | 93 | 92 | 92 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Cefepime | 87 | 90 | 86 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Imipenem | 81 | 82 | 69 | 14 | 100 | 0 |
| Tigecycline | 58 | 63 | 57 | 14 | 67 | 0 |
| Polymixin B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colistin Sulphate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |