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

Table 3

Changes in the pattern of causative microorganism and the resistance rate to the first-line recommended antibiotics (2005–2011).

	2005 to 2008	2008 to 2011
Culture positive	15.4%	16.3%
Gram negative	60.2%	64.9%
Gram positive	39.8%	35.1%
Antibiotic resistance rate %
Cefotaxime	62.5%	85.7%*
Ceftazidime	73.0%	82.1%*
Ceftriaxone	57.8%	59.0%
Ciprofloxacin	30.0%	59.8%*
Ofloxacin	36.8%	50.0%*
Oxacillin	35%	51.6%*

 ^∗𝑃<0.01.