Research Article

Bacterial Profile of External Ocular Infections, Its Associated Factors, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern among Patients Attending Karamara Hospital, Jigjiga, Eastern Ethiopia

Table 7

Multidrug resistance pattern for patients with external ocular infection attending at Karamara hospital, Jigjiga, eastern Ethiopia, 2020.

OrganismsAntibiotic pattern
R0R1R2R3R4>R5Total (%)

Staphylococcus aureus1439327395 (53.1)
Coagulase-negative-staphylococcus1212114158 (32.4)
Streptococcus pneumonia11114 (2.2)
Moraxella spp112 (1.1)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa213 (1.7)
Escherichia. coli1143211 (6.2)
Klebsiella pneumonia31116 (3.3)
Total (%)4 (2.2)18 (10)66 (36.9)60 (33.5)25 (14)6 (3.4)179 (100)

R0: sensitive for all, R1: resistance to one drug, R2: resistance to two drugs, R3: resistance to three drugs, R4: resistance to four drugs, ≥R5: resistance to five and above drugs.