Trends of Antibacterial Resistance at the National Reference Laboratory in Cameroon: Comparison of the Situation between 2010 and 2017

Table 1

Collection sites distribution, concerning bacterial analysis in 2010 and 2017, Centre Pasteur du Cameroon, Yaounde. Continuous data are expressed in and categorical data in counts (frequencies in %).

Variable	Modalities	Overall	2010	2017	value
Sex	Female	4,748 (62.6)	2,274 (63.4)	2,474 (61.9)	0.187
	Male	2,840 (37.4)	1,315 (36.6)	1,525 (38.1)
	Total	7,588 (100.0)	3,589 (100.0)	3,999 (100.0)
Age	Mean				<0.001
	Adult (>18 years)	5,742 (74.5)	2,684 (74.9)	3,058 (74.0)	0.343
	Teen/child (≤18)	1,969 (25.5)	897 (25.1)	1,072 (26.0)
	Total	7,711 (100.0)	3,581 (100.0)	4,130 (100.0)
Specimen group	Deep	4,350 (48.4)	2,012 (48.1)	2,238 (48.7)	0.280
	Female genital	3,290 (36.6)	1,525 (36.4)	1,765 (36.8)
	Male genital	711 (7.9)	332 (7.9)	379 (7.9)
	Superficial	634 (7.1)	319 (7.6)	315 (6.6)
	Total	8,985 (100.0)	4,188 (100.0)	4,697 (100.0)

Sex and age were those informed on each collection site. Given the possibility for a patient to provide more than one sample, there were more samples than patients. Deep specimen included blood cultures, urine, stool, foreign bodies, soft tissue, broncho-pulmonary, bone-and-joints, pleural effusion, cerebrospinal fluid, intraperitoneal, liver punctures, cerebral, lymph nodes, and gastric liquid. Superficial ones were skin, throat, nasal or wound swab, and any externalized fluid.