Predictors of disease complications and treatment outcome among patients with chronic suppurative otitis media attending a tertiary hospital, Mwanza Tanzania

Table 3 Resistance profile of bacterial isolates in the study population

Bacterial isolate	E	VA	SXT	TE	CIP	GEN	CAZ	AMC	CRO	MEM	AMP
Pseudomonas spp. (56)	-	-			0 %	9 %	47 %	95 %		2 %	100 %
S. aureus (34)	31 %	3 %	74 %	6 %	4 %	11 %	-	-	-	-
Proteus spp. (27)	-	-	-	-	0 %	4 %	8 %	70 %	7 %	4 %	100 %
E. coli (22)	-	-	-	67 %	10 %	53 %	70 %	90 %	70 %	0 %	91 %
* Other gram negative (13)	-	-	75 %	32	33 %	63 %	67 %	50 %	75 %	25 %	100 %

E, VA, OX were tested for gram positive bacteria and GEN, CIP, AMC were tested for both gram positive and gram negative bacteria and CAZ, MEM, CRO were tested for gram negative bacteria
Abbreviation: AMC, AMP CAZ, CRO, E, GEN, CIP, SXT, TE, OX, VA and MEM stand for amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, ampicillin, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, erythromycin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole, tetracycline, oxacillin, vancomycin and meropenem respectively
*Other gram negative: Klebsiella spp. (8), Acaligenesis spp. (4) and Acinetobacter spp. (1)

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