Bacterial Isolates and Drug Susceptibility Pattern of Sterile Body Fluids from Tertiary Hospital, Northern Ethiopia: A Four-Year Retrospective Study

Table 1

Distribution of bacterial etiologic agents from body fluids.

Isolated Bacteria	CSF	Pleural fluid	OBF	Total (n=218)
	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)	N (%)
Gram positive	11(48)	6(26)	6(26)	23(52.3)
S. pneumoniae	7	4	0	11
S.aureus	1	1	2	4
CoNS	2	1	0	3
Enterococcus Spp	1	0	1	2
Streptococcus spp	0	0	1	1
Micrococcus lutes	0	0	1	1
Kocuriarosea	0	0	1	1
Gram negative	10(47.6)	6(28.6)	5(23.8)	21(47.7)
K.pneumoniae	2	3	0	5
E. coli	4	0	0	4
P.aeruginosa	1	1	2	4
Klebsielaspp	1	0	2	3
Citrobacterspp	0	1	1	2
Proteus spp	0	1	0	1
Acitinobacterspp	1	0	0	1
H.influenza	1	0	0	1
Total	21(47.7)	12(27.3)	11(25)	44(100.0)

CoNS:- Coagulase negative Staphylococcus, OBF=synovial and ascetic fluid