Admission Outcome and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Bacterial Isolates among Neonates with Suspected Sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Dessie, Northeastern Ethiopia

Table 6

Multidrug resistance patterns among isolated bacteria from blood cultures in neonates with suspected sepsis admitted in NICU at Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Dessie, Northeastern Ethiopia, August 2017 to March 2018.

Isolated bacteria	Degree of resistance
	R0	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	>=R6	Total MDR (≥3 antibiotic classes)
Gram-negative (36)
E. coli (24)	5	1	3	1	1	2	11	15
K. pneumoniae (7)	0	0	1	1	0	0	5	6
K. oxytoca (2)	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1
Citrobacter sp (2)	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Acinetobacter sp (1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Total	6	1	5	2	1	2	19	24
Gram-positive (31)
CoNS (13)	2	1	0	2	4	0	4	10
S. aureus (18)	3	1	2	0	8	0	4	12
Total	5	2	2	2	12	0	8	22

R0: no resistance, R1: Resistance to one antibiotic class, R2 : Resistance to two antibiotic classes, R3 : Resistance to three antibiotic classes, R4 : Resistance to four antibiotic classes, R5 : Resistance to five antibiotic classes.