Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Resistance Genes in Isolates from Ghanaian Drinking Water Sources

Table 5

Antibiotic resistance patterns of Gram-positive bacteria isolated from the water sources.

Isolate	Pattern of antibiotic resistance: (number of resistant strains per antibiotic)												Multiple resistances
	AMP	COX	ERY	TET	COT	CRX	GEN	PEN	CIP	AUG	VAN	MEM	No.	%	MAR
Bacillus spp. ()	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Enterococcus spp. ()	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0
Staphylococcus aureus ()	1	4	1	1	1	2	0	1	1	5	5	6	28	59.6	2.3
Staphylococcus epidermidis ()	0	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	3	3	4	17	36.2	1.4
Streptococcus agalactiae ()	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4.3	0.2
Total	1 (2.1)	7 (14.9)	1 (2.1)	2 (4.3)	1 (2.1)	7 (14.9)	0 (0.0)	1 (2.1)	1 (2.1)	8 (17.0)	8 (17.0)	10 (21.3)	47	100

Key: AMP: ampicillin; COX: cloxacillin; ERY: erythromycin; TET: tetracycline; COT: cotrimoxazole; CRX: cefuroxime; GEN: gentamicin; PEN: penicillin; CHL: chloramphenicol; CTR: ceftriaxone; CTX: cefotaxime; CIP: ciprofloxacin; AUG: augmentin; VAN: vancomycin; MEM: meropenem.