Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Causative Organisms of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: A Single Centre, Six-Year Experience of 1981 Samples

Table 1

Profiles of the isolated microorganisms in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in different wards.

	All	Different wards of the hospital
		Emergency ward	Internal ward	Surgery ward	ICU ward	Paediatric ward
	𝑁 (%)	𝑁 (%)	𝑁 (%)	𝑁 (%)	𝑁 (%)
Positive growth	314 (15.85%)	121 (6.10%)	79 (4.00%)	58 (2.90%)	55 (2.80%)	1 (0.05%)
Organism
E. coli	106 (33.8%)	50 (5.1%)	20 (3.2%)	20 (9.3%)	15 (9.4%)	1 (16.7%)
Staphylococcus aureus	28 (8.9%)	14 (1.4%)	7 (1.1%)	7 (3.3%)	—	—
Enterococcus	27 (8.6%)	6 (0.6%)	12 (1.9%)	4 (1.9%)	—	—
Acinetobacter	25 (8%)	5 (0.5%)	7 (1.1%)	3 (1.4%)	10 (6.2%)	—
Candida	23 (7.3%)	8 (0.8%)	6 (1%)	5 (2.3%)	4 (2.5%)	—
Staphylococcus epidermidis	21 (6.7%)	8 (0.8%)	8 (1.3%)	3 (1.4%)	2 (1%)	—
Klebsiella	17 (5.4%)	7 (0.7%)	3 (0.5%)	6 (2.8%)	1 (0.6%)	—
Citrobacter	16 (5.1%)	6 (0.6%)	2 (0.3%)	1 (0.5%)	7 (4.4%)	—
Pseudomonas	15 (4.8%)	2 (0.2%)	5 (0.8%)	4 (1.9%)	4 (2.5%)	—
Enterobacter	11 (3.3%)	1 (0.1%)	3 (0.5%)	3 (1.4%)	4 (2.5%)	—
Nonhemolytic Streptococcus	5 (1.6%)	2 (0.2%)	2 (0.3%)	—	1 (0.6%)	—
Alcaligenes sp.	4 (1.3%)	4 (0.4%)	—	—	—	—
Hemolytic Streptococcus	4 (1.3%)	2 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	—	1 (0.6%)	—
Streptococcus group D	4 (1.3%)	4 (0.4%)	—	—	—	—
Proteus	3 (1%)	—	2 (0.3%)	1 (0.5%)	—	—
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	3 (1%)	1 (0.1%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.5%)	—	—
Streptococcus pneumoniae	2 (0.6%)	1 (0.1%)	—	—	1 (0.6%)	—