Prevalence, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Associated Factors of Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization Rate among Old-Age Patients with Respiratory Tract Infection Attending Sheik Hassan Yebere Referral and Karamara General Hospitals, Jigjiga, Ethiopia

Table 5

Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of S. pneumoniae isolated from old-age patients who attended Sheik Hassan Yebere Referral and Karamara General Hospitals Jigjiga, Ethiopia from March 1 to April 15, 2020 (N = 26).

Antimicrobial agents	S. pneumoniae (n = 26)
	Resistant	Intermediate	Susceptible
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Erythromycin	0	1 (3.1%)	25 (96.2%)
Trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole	12 (46.2%)	0	14 (53.8%)
Ampicillin	9 (34.6%)	1 (3.8%)	16 (61.5%)
Ceftriaxone	5 (19.2%)	0	21 (80.8%)
Tetracycline	11 (42.3%)	0	15 (57.7%)
Chloraphenicol	2 (7.7%)	0	24 (92.3%)
Oxacillin	5 (19.2%)	2 (7.7%)	19 (73.1%)