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. 2021 Mar 8;11:5444. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84794-6

Table 3.

Antibiotic resistance profile of bacterial isolates.

Antibiotics Disc potency (µg/disc) Zone of inhibition (mm)
S. aureus FA-1 E. fergusonii FA-5 A. pittii FA-6 P. aeruginosa FA-7 A. enteropelogenes FA-8 P. mirabilis FA-9
Antimicrobial class Antibiotic
β-lactam antibiotics Cephems Cefa-sulbactum 75/10 19S 20S 13R 15R 19S 12R
Cefoperazone 75 12R 15R 17I 14R 13R 14R
Cefepime tazobactam 30/10 19S 18S 14R 18S 14R 11R
Cefotaxime 30 13R 17R 13R 13R 17S 13R
Ceftazidime 30 12R 16R 11R 15I 13R 11R
Cefepime 30 12R 17R 16I 13R 27S 18I
Carbapenem Imipenem 10 16I 21S 13R 13R 22S 20S
Monobactam Aztreonam 30 18I 16R 11R 12R 20S 17I
Penicillin-like antibiotics Amoxicillin 10 0R 15I 10R 11R 11R 10R
Penicillin beta-lactam antibiotic Oxacillin 5 14R 17I 12R 0R 0R 11R
Non β-lactam antibiotics Sulfonamides Co-trimoxazole 25 0R 15I 16I 12R 0R 10R
Fluoroquinolones Ciprofloxacin 5 0R 13R 12R 10R 10R 15I
Norfloxacin 10 18S 14R 0R 0R 10R 19S
Gatifloxacin 5 0R 12R 10R 0R 17I 10R
Ofloxacin 5 0R 0R 0R 11R 12R 10R
Aminoglycosides Gentamicin 10 13R 15S 19S 17S 20S 18S
Amikacin 30 14R 14R 12R 12R 10R 16I
Tobramycin 10 14R 14I 15I 12R 0R 17I
Macrolides Erythromycin 15 0R 11R 0R 0R 15I 0R
Ansamycin Rifampicin 5 23I 18I 10R 0R 16I 0R
Tetracycline Tetracycline 30 17I 14I 11R 10R 10R 17I
Quinolones Nalidixic acid 30 13R 15I 10R 12R 0R 10R
Phenicols Chloramphenicol 30 0R 15I 0R 11R 0R 16I
% Resistance 69.5 47.8 78.2 86.9 60.8 56.5

S sensitive, I intermediate, R resistant based on Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) guidelines. Percent (%) resistance was calculated using following formula = total no. of antibiotics marked with R for each strain/total no. of test antibiotics × 100.