Research Article
Bacterial Sepsis in Patients with Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northwest Ethiopia
Table 3
Etiology of bacterial sepsis and concurrent focal infections in VL patients with suspicion of sepsis, Gondar, Ethiopia, 2012.
| Gram reaction | Bacterial species | Isolates No. (%) | Number of isolates that showed same AST (focal infection) |
| Gram-positives (75%) | Staphylococcus aureus | 11 (68.75) | 8 (otitis media (); bacterial peritonitis (); sinusitis (); soft tissue infection ()) | Streptococcus pneumoniae | 1 (6.25) | 1 (pneumonia ()) |
| Gram-negatives (25%) | Escherichia coli | 1 (6.25) | 1 (urinary tract infection ()) | Klebsiella species | 2 (12.5) | 1 (pneumonia ()) | Shigella species | 1 (6.25) | |
| Overall | | 16 (100) | |
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AST: antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
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