Table 1 A four- year distribution of salmonellae recovered from blood cultures submitted to microbiology laboratory of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
From: Salmonella blood stream infections in a tertiary care setting in Ghana
Isolates | Number of Salmonella species a (%) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (n = 181) | Crx-res. | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | P-value b | |||||
Total (n = 37) | Crx res. | Total (n = 53) | Crx res. | Total (n = 63) | Crx res. | Total (n = 28) | Crx res. | ||||
Typhoidal Salmonella | 66 (36.5)a | 11 (16.7)a | 14 (37.8) | 4 (28.5) | 12 (22.4) | 4 (30.7) | 27 (44.8) | 2 (7.4) | 13 (22.4) | 1 (7.6) | 0.1322 |
S. Typhi | 48 (26.54) | 7 (14.5) | 8 (21.6) | 2 (25.0) | 7 (14.8) | 2 (25.0) | 25 (61.9) | 2 (3.3) | 8 (28.5) | 1 (12.5) | 0.8056 |
S. Paratyphi A | 12 (6.6) | 4 (33.3) | 3 (8.1) | 2 (66.6) | 3 (5.5) | 2 (66.7) | 1 (1.6) | 0 | 5 (17.8) | 0 | 0.0441 |
S. Paratyphi B | 6 (3.3) | 0 | 3 (8.1) | 0 | 2 (3.7) | 0 | 1 (1.6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1988 |
Non-typhoidal Salmonella | 115 (63.5)b | 21 (18.2)a | 23 (62.1) | 5 (21.7) | 41 (77.3) | 11 (23.4) | 36 (57.1) | 4 (11.1) | 15 (53.5) | 1 (6.7) | 0.1322 |
S. Enteritidis | 93 (51.2) | 18 (19.3) | 16 (25.2) | 4 (25.0) | 33 (61.1) | 9 (27.2) | 29 (46.0) | 4 (13.8) | 15 (53.5) | 1 (6.7) | 0.129c 2010*2013, P = 0.018; 2011*2013, P = 0.019 |
S. Typhumurium | 22 (12.2) | 3 (13.6) | 7 (18.9) | 1 (14.2) | 8 (14.0) | 2 (25.0) | 7 (6.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |