Research Article
Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from an Orthopaedic Hospital in Nigeria
Table 1
Resistance pattern of MRSA isolates from various sites (wound, skin, and bed) to antibiotics.
| Antibiotics
| Wounds | Skin | Bed | | No. of isolates (%) | No. of isolates (%) | No. of isolates (%) | | R | I | S | R | I | S | R | I | S |
| | AMP10 | 33 (100) | None | None | 36 (100) | None | None | 48 (100) | None | None | | CN10 | 18 (54.5) | 7 (21.2) | 8 (24.2) | 19 (52.8) | 5 (13.9) | 12 (33.3) | 18 (37.5) | 8 (16.7) | 22 (45.8) | | CRO30 | 23 (69.7) | 7 (21.2) | 3 (9.1)
| 26 (72.2)
| 6 (16.7)
| 4 (11.1)
| 34 (11.1)
| 6 (12.5)
| 5 (10.4)
| | PEF5 | 30 (90.9) | None | 3 (9.1) | 26 (72.2) | 3 (8.3) | 7 (19.4) | 32 (66.7) | 3 (6.3) | 13 (27.1) | | CIP5 | 17 (51.5) | 3 (9.1) | 13 (39.4) | 17 (47.2) | 3 (47.2) | 16 (44.4) | 17 (35.4) | 4 (8.3) | 27 (56.3) |
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R: resistance, I: intermediate, S: sensitive, Amp10: ampicillin 10 µg, CN10: gentamicin 10 µg, CRO30: ceftriaxone 30 µg, PEF5: pefloxacin 5 µg, CIP5: ciprofloxacin 5 µg.
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