Research Article
Nosocomial Isolates and Their Drug Resistant Pattern in ICU Patients at National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Nepal
Table 2
Frequency of bacterial isolates and their multidrug resistant profile.
| | SN | Bacterial isolates | Total isolate number | Multidrug resistance isolates number (%) |
| | 1 | Acinetobacter spp. | 58 | 46 (79.31) | | 2 | K. oxytoca | 23 | 20 (86.95) | | 3 | K. pneumoniae | 22 | 18 (81.81) | | 4 | E. coli | 19 | 14 (73.62) | | 5 | Pseudomonas spp. | 19 | 16 (84.21) | | 6 | Citrobacter spp. | 3 | 2 (66.66) | | 7 | P. vulgaris | 3 | 3 (100) | | 8 | P. mirabilis | 2 | 2 (100) | | 9 | Staphylococcus aureus | 32 | 18 (56.25) | | 10 | β-hemolytic streptococci | 3 | 3 (100) | | 11 | Viridans streptococci | 2 | 0 | | 12 | Coagulase negative staphylococci | 1 | 0 |
| | Total | 187 | 142 (75.93) |
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Multidrug resistance criteria: resistance to three or more drugs of different structural classes.
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