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Table 3 Multidrug resistance (MDR) profiles of bacterial isolates

From: Antimicrobial resistance profiles of bacterial isolates from clinical specimens referred to Ethiopian Public Health Institute: analysis of 5-year data

Isolates

Total number of isolates

Resistance profiles to the number of classes of drugs

Resistance to none of the classes

Resistance to one classa

Resistance to two classesa

Resistance to three or more classesa

Number

Percent

Eschericia coli

432

24

57

83

268

62.04

K.pneumoniae

225

9

13

23

180

80.00

K.oxytoca

16

5

3

0

8

50.00

K.ozaenae

17

1

3

6

7

41.18

Enterobacter cloacae

41

6

7

9

19

46.34

Citrobacter diversus

19

3

2

2

12

63.16

Providencia alkalfacia

2

1

1

0

0

0.00

Providencia rettgeri

3

1

1

0

1

33.33

Proteus mirabilis

8

3

1

0

4

50.00

Proteus vulgaris

1

0

1

0

0

0.00

Providencia staurtti

3

1

0

0

2

66.67

Morganella morgani

3

0

0

1

2

66.67

K.aerogenes

2

1

0

0

1

50.00

Citrobacter spp

20

3

1

3

13

65.00

S.aureus

14

1

7

6

0

0.00

Enterobacter spp

2

0

0

1

1

50.00

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

7

0

4

2

1

14.29

Acinetobacter spp

25

0

0

4

21

84.00

Total

840

59

101

140

540

64.29

  1. aResistance of bacterial isolates to at least one antibiotic in a class of drugs