Table 4.
Antibiotic resistance patterns of Gram-positive bacteria isolated from patients with infections.
| Antibiotics | Enterococcus spp. | S. aureus | S. epidermidis | S. pneumoniae | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R% | I% | S% | R% | I% | S% | R% | I% | S% | R% | I% | S% | |
| Amikacin | NA | NA | NA | 3.0 | 0 | 97.0 | 7.8 | 3.9 | 88.3 | NA | NA | NA |
| Ciprofloxacin | 93.2 | 5.1 | 1.7 | 22.4 | 4.5 | 73.1 | 63.6 | 1.3 | 35.1 | NA | NA | NA |
| Nitrofurantoin | 11.1 | 21.4 | 67.5 | 20.1 | 7.5 | 72.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 92.2 | NA | NA | NA |
| Gentamicin | 84.6 | 8.5 | 6.8 | 14.2 | 0 | 85.8 | 28.6 | 5.2 | 66.2 | NA | NA | NA |
| Ceftriaxone | NA | NA | NA | 30.6 | 5.2 | 64.2 | 71.4 | 11.7 | 16.9 | 42.9 | 4.1 | 53.1 |
| SXT | NA | NA | NA | 20.1 | 3.0 | 76.9 | 58.4 | 1.3 | 40.2 | 32.6 | 4.1 | 63.3 |
| Norfloxacin | 94 | 4.3 | 1.7 | 39.6 | 6.7 | 53.7 | 63.6 | 1.3 | 35.1 | NA | NA | NA |
| Tetracycline | 92.3 | 0 | 7.7 | 42.5 | 0.7 | 56.7 | 64.9 | 0 | 35.1 | 51.0 | 6.1 | 42.9 |
| Vancomycin | 75.2 | 17.9 | 6.8 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1.3 | 0 | 98.7 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Ampicillin | 60.7 | 4.3 | 35.0 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Chloramphenicol | 32.5 | 13.7 | 53.8 | 8.2 | 6.0 | 85.8 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 90.9 | 12.2 | 0 | 87.7 |
| Clindamycin | NA | NA | NA | 33.6 | 4.5 | 61.9 | 71.4 | 2.6 | 26.0 | 28.6 | 2.0 | 69.4 |
| Erythromycin | NA | NA | NA | 38.8 | 5.2 | 56.0 | 84.4 | 0 | 15.6 | 30.6 | 6.1 | 63.2 |
R: resistant, I: intermediate, S: sensitive, SXT: Co-Trimoxazole, and NA: not applicable.