Table 6.
Multi-Drug Resistance Pattern of Bacterial Isolates from Infection Suspected Orthopedic Surgical Wounds at Arba Minch General Hospital
| Bacterial Isolates | Antibiogram Pattern (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | R2 | R3 | ≥R4 | Total | |
| S. aureus (n=19) | 4(21.1) | 5(26.3) | 3(15.8) | 1(5.3) | 13(68.4) |
| CoNS (n=10) | 3(30) | 2(20) | 1(10) | 0(0) | 6(60) |
| E. faecium (n=3) | 0(0) | 1(33.3) | 0(0) | 1(33.3) | 2(66.7) |
| K. pneumoniae (n=13) | 3(23.1) | 4(30.8) | 1(7.7) | 1(7.7) | 9(69.2) |
| P. aeruginosa (n=10) | 3(30) | 3(30) | 1(10) | 0(0) | 7(70) |
| E. coli (n=7) | 1(14.3) | 1(14.3) | 2(28.6) | 1(14.3) | 5(71.4) |
| A. baumannii (n=6) | 1(16.7) | 1(16.7) | 2(33.3) | 0(0) | 4(66.7) |
| Citrobacter spp. (n = 4) | 1(25) | 0(0) | 1(25) | 1(25) | 3(75) |
| Entrobacter spp. (n=2) | 0(0) | 1(50) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 1(50) |
| Proteus spp. (n=2) | 1(50) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 1(50) |
| Total MDR isolates (n=76) | 17(22.4) | 18(23.7) | 11(14.5) | 5(6.6) | 51(67.1) |
Notes: R1, R2, R3, and R4: Resistant to at least one antibiotic from; three classes, four classes, five classes and six and more classes of antibiotics, respectively.
Abbreviations: MDR, multidrug resistant; CoNS, Coagulase Negative Staphylococci; spp, species.