Research Article
Prevalence of CTX-M β-Lactamases Producing Multidrug Resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae among Patients Attending Bir Hospital, Nepal
Table 1
Prevalence of ESBL and blaCTX-M among multidrug resistant isolates.
| | Isolates | Total isolates | MDR isolates (%) | ESBL screening positive among MDR isolates (%) | ESBL positive among MDR isolates (%) | blaCTX-M among ESBL producers (%) |
| | E. coli | 227 | 168 (74.01) | 168 (100) | 97 (57.73) | 91 (93.81) | | K. pneumoniae | 118 | 64 (54.24) | 64 (100) | 38 (59.37) | 30 (78.94) | | Total | 345 | 232 (67.25) | 232 (100) | 135 (58.18) | 121 (89.62) |
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