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Table 5 Multidrug resistance frequency of Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas species

From: Sepsis: emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopian referral hospitals

Gram-negative isolates

Resistance frequency

 

R-0%

R-1%

R-2%

R-3%

R-4%

R-5%

R-6%

R-7%

R-8%

R-9%

R-10%

MDR %

Enterobacteriaceae

K. pneumoniae (n = 111)

0

0.9

3.6

0.9

0.9

8.1

15.3

15.3

34.2

12.6

8.1

95.4

K. variicola (n = 77)

0

22.1

6.5

3.9

14.3

9.1

2.6

7.8

28.6

5.2

0

72.2

E. coli (n = 53)

3.8

7.5

3.8

7.5

11.3

17.0

1.9

22.6

13.2

11.3

0

84.8

E. cloacae complex (n = 29)

3.4

10.3

13.8

10.3

0

6.9

10.3

3.4

24.1

13.8

3.4

72.7

P. dispersa (n = 21)

0

9.5

9.5

14.3

4.8

42.9

14.3

0

0

4.8

0

81

K. oxytoca (n = 13)

0

15.4

0

7.7

0

7.7

15.4

30.8

15.4

7.7

0

84.6

Rare Enterobacteriaceae isolates (n = 14)

0

21.4

7.1

7.1

7.1

14.3

14.3

14.3

7.1

7.1

0

71.3

Total (n = 318)

0.9

10.1

5.7

5.0

6.3

12.3

9.4

13.2

24.2

9.7

3.1

83.2

Acinetobacter species

A. baumannii (n = 34)

0

2.9

5.9

14.7

20.6

20.6

14.7

20.6

91.2

Other Acinetobacter species (n = 8)

0

0

50.0

12.5

0

0

25

12.5

50.0

Total (n = 42)

0

2.4

14.3

14.3

16.7

16.7

16.7

19.0

83.4

Pseudomonas species

P. aeruginosa (n = 17)

0

11.8

29.4

29.4

23.5

0

5.9

58.8

Other Pseudomonas species (n = 2)

0

0

100

0

0

0

0

0

Total (n = 19)

0

10.5

42.1%

31.6

5.3

5.3

5.3

47.5

  1. R-0, R-1, R-2, …, R-10 stand for resistance to 0, 1, 2, …., 10 antibiotics from different classes; MDR stands for multidrug resistance to three or more antibiotics from different classes,—non applicable