Research Article
Growing Menace of Antibacterial Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Nepal: An Insight of Beta-Lactamase Production
Table 3
Distribution of enzyme producing isolates.
| | Specimen types (total number of isolates) | ESBLs
Number (%) | MBLs
Number (%) | AmpC
Number (%) |
| | Pus (32) | 13 (40.6) | 6 (18.7) | 4 (12.5) | | Sputum (68) | 22 (32.4) | 22 (32.3) | 4 (5.9) | | Urine (42) | 12 (28.6) | 14 (33.3) | 8 (19.0) | | Blood (20) | 6 (30.0) | 6 (30.0) | 2 (10.0) | | Endotracheal tube (8) | 2 (25.0) | 6 (75.0) | 8 (100) | | Swab (4) | 2 (50.0) | 1 (25.0) | 2 (50.0) | | Bronchoalveolar lavage (2) | 2 (100) | 0 | 0 | | Pleural fluid (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Total (178) | 59 (33.1) | 55 (30.9) | 28 (15.7) |
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