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; (𝑛=12 (75%))	Staphylococcus aureus	11 (68.75)	8 (otitis media (𝑛=3); bacterial peritonitis (𝑛=3); sinusitis (𝑛=1); soft tissue infection (𝑛=1))
	Streptococcus pneumoniae	1 (6.25)	1 (pneumonia (𝑛=1))
Gram-negatives; (𝑛=4 (25%))	Escherichia coli	1 (6.25)	1 (urinary tract infection (𝑛=1))
	Klebsiella species	2 (12.5)	1 (pneumonia (𝑛=1))
	Shigella species	1 (6.25)
Overall		16 (100)

AST: antimicrobial susceptibility testing.