Antibiotic resistance among Escherichia coli isolates from stool samples of children aged 3 to 14 years from Ujjain, India

Table 3 Prevalence (%) of resistance of E. coli to selected antibiotics associated with demographic variables

		TET	AMP	AMC	FEP	CIP	NOR	ADR	MDR
Sex of child	Female	*43()	41	31	17 *	9	12	75	36
Sex of child	Male	33	35	28	11	7	10	69	31
Family type	Joint	39()**	35	29	13	7	14	72	33
Family type	Nuclear	34	41	29	14	8	9	72	34
Maternal education	>1 year	38	43()**	*35()	16	*13()	*16()	72	36
Maternal education	0 years	36	34	26	12	5	8	72	31
Given antibiotics (last three weeks)	Yes	50	43	38	19	12()**	12	81	36
	No	36	37	28	13	7	11	71	33

Associations of antibiotic resistance Percentage (%) prevalence of resistance shown for each antibiotic according to selected demographic factors. (TET = tetracycline; AMP = ampicillin; AMC = amoxicillin/clavulanic acid; FEP = cefepime; CIP = ciprofloxacin; NOR = norfloxacin; ADR = resistance to any antibiotic; MDR = multi-drug resistance).
*Statistically significant by chi-squared analysis.
**Statistically significant by multivariate logistic regression analysis, adjusted for age.

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