Research Article

Etiologic Agents of Bacterial Sepsis and Their Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns among Patients Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus at Gondar University Teaching Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 4

Antibiotic resistance profile of bacterial isolate among HIV infected patients in the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital from March 1, 2013, to May 2, 2013.

Bacterial isolate (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) and above (%)

Gram positive
S. aureus ()1 (7.6)1 (7.6)5 (38.4)2 (15.3)1 (7.6)3 (23.0)
CONS ()0 (0)1 (12.5)3 (37.5)1 (12.5)0 (0)3 (37.5)
Viridans streptococci()0 (0)2 (66.6)0 (0)0 (0)1 (33.3)0 (0)
S. pyogenes ()0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)1 (50)0 (0)1 (50)
Total (26)1 (3.8)4 (15.4)8 (30.8)4 (15.4)2 (7.7)7 (26.9)
Gram negative
E. coli ()0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)1 (100)0 (0)
K. ozaenae ()0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)1 (100)0 (0)
H. influenzae ()0 (0)1 (100)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)
P. aeruginosa ()0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)1 (100)
Serratia ()0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)0 (0)1 (100)
Total (n = 5)0 (0)1 (20)0 (0)0 (0)2 (40)2 (00)

Overall (n = 31)1 (3.2)5 (16.1)8 (25.8)4 (12.9)4 (12.9)9 (29.0)

: nonresistant; : resistant for one antibiotic; : resistant for two antibiotics; : resistant for three antibiotics; : resistant for four antibiotics; and above: resistant for five and greater than five antibiotics.