Bacterial Isolates and Their Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Wound Infections among Inpatients and Outpatients Attending the University of Gondar Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Gram-positive bacterial isolates from wound swab cultures among inpatients and outpatients attending the University of Gondar Referral Hospital from March to May, 2014.

Bacterial isolates	Number of resistance pathogens to antimicrobial agents (%)
	VAN	OXA	CXC	PEN	E	TE	C	CRO	AML	CN	CIP	SXT
S. aureus ()	0 (0)	30 (76.9)	12 (30.8)	33 (84.6)	24 (61.5)	25 (64.1)	9 (23.1)	8 (20.5)	34 (87.2)	7 (17.9)	8 (20.6)	15 (38.5)
CoNS ()	0 (0)	12 (75)	9 (56.2)	13 (81.2)	8 (50)	10 (62.5)	6 (37.5)	8 (50)	13 (81.2)	3 (18.8)	3 (18.8)	7 (43.8)
Enterococci spp. ()	1 (50)	2 (100)	2 (100)	2 (100)	1 (50)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (50)	2 (100)	1 (50)	1 (50)	1 (50)
S. pyogenes ()	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (50)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Total (59)	1 (1.6)	44 (74.6)	23 (38.9)	48 (81.3)	33 (55.9)	35 (59.4)	15 (25.4)	17 (28.8)	49 (83)	12 (20.3)	12 (20.3)	23 (38.9)

VAN: vancomycin, OXA: oxacillin, CXC: cloxacillin, PEN: penicillin, E: erythromycin, TE: tetracycline, C: chloramphenicol, CRO: ceftriaxone, AML: amoxicillin, CN: gentamicin, CIP: ciprofloxacin, SXT: trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and CoNS: coagulase negative Staphylococcus. : number of isolates.