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Table 1 Association between carbapenem susceptibility and different features of 115 clinical Enterobacterales isolates

From: Phenotype-genotype correlations among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales recovered from four Egyptian hospitals with the report of SPM carbapenemase

Features

No. of isolates (%)

Carbapenem susceptibility

Resistant

Susceptible

Organism

   

Klebsiella pneumoniae

76 (66.1%)

71

5

Escherichia coli

19 (16.5%)

11

8

Shigella sonnei

14 (12.2%)

6

8

Enterobacter cloacae

5 (4.3%)

4

1

Proteus mirabilis

1 (0.9%)

1

0

Fisher's Exact test p-value = 0.00001

   

Specimen

   

Sputum

55 (47.8%)

53

2

Urine

50 (43.5%)

33

17

Pus swab

5 (4.3%)

5

0

Stool

3 (2.6%)

1

2

Blood

2 (1.7%)

1

1

Fisher's Exact test p-value = 0.00003

   

Department of isolation

   

Inpatient

75 (65.2%)

70

5

Outpatient

40 (34.8%)

23

17

Fisher's Exact test p-value = 0.00001

   
  1. Organisms with < 30 isolates should be interpreted with caution, as small numbers may bias the group susceptibilities