Bacterial Isolates and Antibiotic Sensitivity among Gambian Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition

Table 4

Antibiotic sensitivity of the major blood and urine pathogens in relation to the number tested.

	Organism number susceptible/number tested
	S. pneumoniae	E. coli	Nontyphoidal salmonellae^d
Penicillin	4/4	NT	NT
Ampicillin	4/4	0/13	4/5
Cotrimoxazole	NT	0/13	4/4
Genticin	NT	13/13	5/5
Chloramphenicol	4/4	10/13	5/5
Nitrofurantoin	NT	8/8	NT
Ciprofloxacin	NT	13/13	5/5
Cefuroxime	NT	13/13	5/5
Cefotaxime	NT	12/12	4/4
Ceftriaxone	1/4	1/1	NT