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Table 3 T rends in antibiotic non-susceptibility of clinical N. gonrrhoeae isolates in the A mhara regional health research laboratory center between S eptember 2006 and A ugust 2009

From: N eisseria gonorrhoeae non-susceptible to cephalosporins and quinolones in Northwest Ethiopia

Antimicrobial agent

September 2006 to August 2007

September 2007 to August 2008

September 2008 to August 2009

Ceftriaxone

20 (1/5)

0

80 (4/5)

Penicillin G

23.5 (4/17)

17.7 (3/17)

58.8 (10/17)

Tetracycline

28.0 (7/25)

24.0 (6/25)

48.0 (12/25)

Ciprofloxacin

11.1 (1/9)

11.1 (1/9)

77.8 (7/9)

Ceftriaxone and Penicillin G

20 (1/5)

0

80 (4/5)

Ceftriaxone and Tetracycline

20 (1/5)

0

80 (4/5)

Ceftriaxone and Ciprofloxacin

0

0

100 (3/3)

Penicillin G and Tetracycline

21.4 (3/14)

14.3 (2/14)

64.3 (9/14)

Penicillin G and Ciprofloxacin

0

12.5 (1/8)

87.5 (7/8)

Tetracycline and Ciprofloxacin

12.5 (1/8)

0

87.5 (7/8)

Multi drug non-susceptibility

20 (1/5)

0

80 (4/5)

  1. Numbers in each cell in the body of the table are: Percent (Number of non-susceptible isolate/Total isolates tested for the antimicrobial agent in that year band).