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. 2022 Oct;14(5):636–644. doi: 10.18502/ijm.v14i5.10956

Table 1.

Species wise distribution of Fosfomycin MIC 50/90along with Fosfomycin and Nitrofurantoin resistance rates.

Organism Fosfomycin MIC 50/90 (mg/L) (MIC range) (mg/L) Fosfomycin resistance (%) NIT resistance (%)

AD E-test DD

AD E-test CLSI EUCAST CLSI EUCAST CLSI EUCAST

S I R S R S I R S R S I R S R
E. coli (113) 8/64(8–512) 0.25/64 (0.125–1024) 92.9 0.9 6.2 86.7 13.3 92.9 0.9 6.2 89.4 10.6 92.2 0 8.8 88.5 11.5 14.2
Klebsiella pneumoniae (38) 8/64(8–512) 8/128 (0.125–1024) 92.1 0 7.9 86.9 13.1 86.8 5.3 7.9 89.5 10.5 84.2 0 15.8 50 50 50
Other Enterobacterales (7)* 8/16(8–16) 0.125/64 (0.125–128) 100 0 0 100 0 87.5 12.5 0 75 25 100 0 0 87.5 12.5 28.6
Enterococcus spp. (8) 8/256(8–512) 0.125/512 (0.125–1024) 87.5 0 12.5 87.5 12.5 87.5 0 12.5 75 25 75 12.5 12.5 62.5 37.5 25*
P. aeruginosa (14) 8/32(8–64) 8/32(0.125–64) 100 0 0 92.9 7.1 100 0 0 92.9 7.1 100 0 0 92.9 7.1 NA*
Total (181) 8/64(8–512) 0.5/64(0.125–1024) 93.3 0.6 6.1 88.4 11.6 91.7 2.2 6.1 88.4 11.6 90 0.6 9.4 79.6 20.4 27.1

*Proteus mirabilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were excluded as they are intrinsically resistant to Nitrofurantoin, DD: Disc diffusion, AD: Agar dilution, (NIT) Nitrofurantoin, S: Susceptible, I: Intermediate, R: Resistant, CLSI: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, EUCAST: European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, MIC: Minimum inhibitory concentration