Emergence of high drug resistant bacterial isolates from patients with health care associated infections at Jimma University medical center: a cross sectional study

Table 4 Antimicrobial resistance and associated factors

Variable	Non MDR (N = 12) (%)	MDR (N = 106) (%)	P
History of treatment^a
No	9 (75.0)	85 (80.19)
Yes	3 (25.0)	21 (19.81)	0.672
Patient outcome
Progress	12 (100)	93 (87.74)
Died	0	13 (12.26)	0.198
Duration of stay in Hospital
<=15 days	8 (66.6)	25 (23.58)
> 15 days	4 (33.4)	81 (76.42)	0.002

Non-MDR: susceptible to all antibiotic classes/resistant to one/two antibiotic classes; MDR: resistant to at least one agent in three or more antimicrobial categories Magiorakos et al. [4]
^a taking antibiotics in the last 3 months of the study period

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