Research Article
Prevalence of CTX-M β-Lactamases Producing Multidrug Resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae among Patients Attending Bir Hospital, Nepal
Table 2
Distribution of ESBL producing isolates with respect to different variables.
| | Variables | ESBL isolates (%) | ESBL producing | value | | E. coli (%) | K. pneumoniae (%) |
| | Gender | | Male | 69 (51.11) | 48 (49.49) | 21 (55.26) | 0.545 | | Female | 66 (48.88) | 49 (50.51) | 17 (44.74) | | Patients’ type | | Inpatients | 19 (14.07) | 12 (12.37) | 7 (18.42) | 0.363 | | Outpatients | 116 (85.92) | 85 (87.63) | 31 (81.58) | | Specimens’ type | | Urine | 93 (68.88) | 74 (76.29) | 19 (50.00) | 0.000 | | Pus | 15 (11.11) | 12 (12.37) | 3 (7.89) | | Sputum | 17 (12.59) | 4 (4.12) | 13 (34.21) | | Blood | 7 (5.78) | 4 (4.12) | 3 (7.89) | | Body fluids | 3 (2.22) | 3 (3.09) | 0 (0.00) | | Age group | | ≤20 | 8 (6.08) | 5 (5.16) | 3 (10.74) | 0.925 | | 21-40 | 32 (24.05) | 24 (24.74) | 8 (21.05) | | 41-60 | 45 (33.62) | 31 (31.95) | 14 (36.84) | | 61-80 | 39 (28.98) | 29 (29.89) | 10 (26.32) | | ≥81 | 11 (7.24) | 8 (8.24) | 3 (10.74) |
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indicates statistically significant at 5% level of significance. |
