Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella and Shigella Species Isolated from Outpatients, Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia

Table 4

MDR of Salmonella spp. and Shigella spp. isolated from diarrheal outpatients in Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Jan–Mar, 2014.

Number of antimicrobial resistance values	⁢Salmonella spp.			Shigella spp.
	Antimicrobial resistance patterns	Number of isolates; (%)	Total; (%)	Antimicrobial resistance patterns	Number of isolates
Two	TET/AMP	5 (26.3)	8 (42.1)	—
	SXT/AMP	1 (5.2)		—
	NAL/AMP	2 (10.52)		—
Three	TET/NAL/AMP	2 (10.52)	5 (26.3)	—
	SXT/AMP/TET	2 (10.52)		—
	NAL/SXT/AMP	1 (5.2)		—
Four	NAL/AMP/TET/SXT	1 (5.2)	4 (21.0)	TET/AMP/NAL/SXT	1
	NAL/TET/AMP/C	1 (5.2)		C/TET/AMP/AMK	1
	AMP/SXT/CN/NAL	1 (5.2)
	AMK/AMP/NAL/TET	1 (5.2)

TET: tetracycline, AMP: ampicillin, SXT: cotrimoxazole, NAL: nalidixic acid, C: chloramphenicol, CN: gentamycin, AMK: amikacin, CIP: ciprofloxacin, and NOR: norfloxacin.