Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns of Bacterial Isolates from Blood Culture among HIV/AIDS Patients at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Table 5
Multidrug-resistant patters of the bacterial isolates among blood culture-positive HIV/AIDS patients at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital.
Bacterial isolate
Class of drugs
R0, N (%)
R1, N (%)
R2, N (%)
R3, N (%)
R4, N (%)
≥R5 (%)
Overall MDR (%)
Gram-positive
S. aureus (n = 38)
0 (0)
1 (2.6)
0 (0)
7 (18.4)
4 (10.5)
26 (68.4)
37 (48)
CoNS (n = 27)
0 (0)
2 (7.4)
3 (11.1)
4 (14.8)
5 (18.5)
13 (48.1)
22 (28.6)
S pneumoniae (n = 8)
0 (0)
1 (12.5)
1 (12.5)
4 (50)
0 (0)
2 (25)
6 (7.8)
Enterococcus spp. (n = 4)
0 (0)
1 (25)
0 (0)
1 (25)
1 (25)
1 (25)
3 (3.9)
Total (n = 77)
0 (0)
5 (6.5)
4 (5.2)
16 (20.8)
10 (13)
42 (54.5)
68 (88.3)
Gram-negative
K pneumoniae (n = 19)
2 (10.5)
0 (0)
6 (31.5)
4 (21)
2 (10.5)
5 (26.3)
11 (23.9)
K. rhinoscleromatis (n = 3)
0 (0)
0 (0)
0 (0)
3 (100)
0 (0)
0 (0)
3 (6.5)
E aerogenes (n = 16)
0 (0)
0 (0)
3 (18.8)
7 (43.7)
3 (18.8)
3 (18.8)
3 (6.5)
Haemophilus spp. (n = 3)
0 (0)
1 (33.3)
2 (66.7)
0 (0)
0 (0)
0 (0)
0 (0)
Acinetobacter spp. (n = 5)
0 (0)
3 (60)
1 (20)
1 (20)
0 (0)
0 (0)
1 (2.2)
Total (n = 46)
2 (4.3)
4 (8.7)
12 (28.2)
15 (32.6)
5 (11)
8 (17.3)
28 (60.8)
Overall (n = 123)
2 (1.6)
9 (7.3)
16 (13)
31 (25.2)
15 (12.1)
50 (40.7)
96 (78)
Note. R0, nonresistance; R1, resistance for 1 antibiotic; R2, resistance for 2 antibiotic; R3, resistance for 3 antibiotics; R4, resistance for 4 antibiotic; R5, resistance for 5 and above.
