Table III.
Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of bacterial isolates from the mobile phones of healthcare workers at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
| Organism | Antimicrobial susceptibility (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S/R | CIP | CN | COT | CTX | E | FOX | GEN | P | TE | |
| CoNS | S | 88 | 88 | 50 | - | 50 | 52 | 84 | 0 | 84 |
| R | 12 | 12 | 50 | - | 50 | 48 | 16 | 100 | 16 | |
| S. aureus | S | 100 | 75 | 92 | - | 37.5 | 75 | 95.8 | 0 | 83.3 |
| R | 0 | 25 | 8 | - | 62.5 | 25 | 4.2 | 100 | 16.7 | |
| E. coli | S | 75 | - | 50 | 100 | - | - | 100 | - | 75 |
| R | 25 | - | 50 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | 25 | |
| Klebsiella sp. | S | 100 | - | 100 | 100 | - | - | 100 | - | 100 |
| R | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | 0 | |
| Proteus sp. | S | 100 | - | 100 | 100 | - | - | 100 | - | 100 |
| R | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | 0 | |
| Acinetobacter spp. | S | 100 | - | 50 | 100 | - | - | 100 | - | 100 |
| R | 0 | - | 50 | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | 0 | |
| Pseudomonas spp. | S | 33.3 | - | - | - | - | - | 33.3 | - | - |
| R | 66.7 | - | - | - | - | - | 66.7 | - | - | |
CTX, cefotaxime; CIP, ciprofloxacin; CN, clindamycin; COT, cotrimoxazole; E, erythromycin; FOX, cefoxitin; GEN, gentamicin; P, penicillin; TE, tetracycline; CoNS, coagulase-negative staphylococci; -, not tested against the drug; S%, percentage susceptible to the antimicrobial agent; R%, percentage resistant to the antimicrobial agent.