Research Article

Urinary Tract Infections due to Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae: Prevalence and Risk Factors in a Chicago Emergency Department

Table 2

Distribution of 451 unique Enterobacteriaceae bacteria with and without multidrug resistance (MDR) isolated from 431 study patients.

Enterobacteriaceae bacteriaAll isolates
( )
MDR isolates
( )
Non-MDR isolates
( )

Escherichia coli 323 (72)65 (76)258 (71)0.37
Klebsiella spp. 66 (15)4 (5)62 (17)0.002
Proteus mirabilis 32 (7)5 (6)27 (7)0.61
Citrobacter spp. 17 (4)5 (6)12 (3)0.27
Enterobacter spp. 9 (2)3 (3)6 (2)0.38
Serratia spp. 2 (0.4)2 (2)0 (0)ā€”
Providencia spp. 2 (0.4)2 (2)0 (0)ā€”

Data are in number (%) unless otherwise indicated.
aCompared between MDR and non-MDR isolates.