Research Article
Childhood Septicemia in Nepal: Documenting the Bacterial Etiology and Its Susceptibility to Antibiotics
Table 2
Distribution of bacterial isolates.
| | Isolates | 1–11 months | 1–5 years | 6–10 years | 11–15 years | Total (%) | value |
| | Gram-positive | 34 | 19 | 17 | 12 | 82 (47.7) | 0.388 | | Coagulase negative staphylococcus (CoNS) | 30 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 68 (39.5) | | Staphylococcus aureus | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 (5.2) | | Enterococcus spp. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 (3.0) | | Gram-negative | 23 | 29 | 16 | 22 | 90 (52.3) | | Acinetobacter spp. | 8 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 30 (17.5) | | Citrobacter spp. | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 (2.3) | | Enterobacter spp. | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 13 (7.6) | | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 17 (9.9) | | Klebsiella pneumoniae | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 (4.6) | | Escherichia coli | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 (5.2) | | Salmonella spp. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 (5.2) |
| | Total (%) | 57 (33.1) | 48 (27.9) | 33 (19.2) | 34 (19.8) | 172 (100) | |
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