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 7

Distribution of drug susceptibility pattern of positive blood culture among improved and died neonates admitted in NICU at Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Dessie, Northeastern Ethiopia, August 2017 to March 2018.

Outcome	Pattern	Drug susceptibility pattern, (n)
			AMP	AMC	PTZ	FOX	CXT	CAZ	CPM	MEM	CN	SXT	E	CD
Improved n = 61	S	5	11	17	12	9	14	15	17	29	41	20	19	29
	I	31	1	1	29	31	31	30	30	30	0	0	31	31
	R	25	49	43	20	21	16	16	14	2	20	41	11	1
Death n = 6	S	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0
	I	5	0	0	1	5	1	1	1	1	0	0	5	5
	R	1	6	6	3	1	5	5	5	3	4	6	1	1
Total n = 67	S	5	11	17	14	9	15	15	17	31	43	20	19	29
	I	36	1	1	30	36	31	31	31	31	0	0	36	36
	R	26	55	49	23	22	21	21	19	5	24	47	12	2

R- Resistance, I–Intermediate, S—Sensitive, AMP—Ampicillin, AMC- Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, CD- Clindamycin, CTX- Cefotaxime, CAZ- Ceftazidime, CPM- Cefepime, E -Erythromycin, FOX- Cefoxitine, CN—Gentamicin, MEM - Meropenem, PTZ- Piperacillin-Tazobactam, P Penicillin, SXT Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole.