Table 4.
Multi-drug resistance profile of bacterial isolates from women suspected of puerperal sepsis at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2017
| Bacterial pathogens | Patterns of drug resistance | Total MDR (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R0 (%) | R1 (%) | R2 (%) | R3 (%) | R4 (%) | R5 (%) | R6 (%) | R7 (%) | ||
| S. aureus (n = 19) | 0 | 3 (15.8) | 6 (31.6) | 1 (5.3) | 1 (5.3) | 1 (5.3) | 1 (5.3) | 6 (31.6) | 10 (52.6) |
| CoNS (n = 4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (25) | 0 | 0 | 3 (75) | 4 (100) |
| E. coli (n = 18) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (44.4) | 3 (16.6) | 0 | 1 (5.5) | 6 (33.4) | 18 (100) |
| K.pnuemonaie (n = 7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (42.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (57.1) | 7 (100) |
| A.baumannii (n = 6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (16.6) | 1 (16.6) | 0 | 4 (66.7) | 6 (100) |
| R.orinthinolytica (n = 2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (100) | 2 (100) |
| Total (n = 56) | 0 | 3 (5.4) | 6 (10.7) | 12 (21.4) | 5 (8.9) | 2 (3.6) | 2 (3.6) | 22 (39.3) | 47 (84) |
Key: R0: susceptible to all antimicrobials; R1–7: resistance to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 antimicrobials