Multidrug Resistant Enteric Bacterial Pathogens in a Psychiatric Hospital in Ghana: Implications for Control of Nosocomial Infections

Table 1

Enteric bacterial organisms isolated from various specimens at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.

Enteric organism	Type of specimen				Total isolates; (%)
	Stool; (%)	Urine; (%)	Door handle; (%)	Water; (%)
E. coli	36 (25.4)	48 (58.6)	2 (40.0)	3 (100.0)	89 (38.3)
Proteus	29 (20.4)	17 (20.7)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	46 (19.8)
Klebsiella	24 (16.9)	17 (20.7)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	41 (17.7)
Citrobacter	34 (23.9)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	34 (14.7)
Morganella	19 (13.4)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	19 (8.2)
Pseudomonas	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	3 (60.0)	0 (0.0)	3 (1.3)
Total isolates	142 (100.0)	82 (100.0)	5 (100.0)	3 (100.0)	232 (100.0)

Number outside parentheses indicates number of individual isolates (); number in parentheses indicates the corresponding proportion of isolates in percent (%).