Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Percentage of urinary E. coli and Klebsiella spp. isolates from inpatients and outpatients resistant to antimicrobial agents

	E. coli			Klebsiellaspp.
Drug	Inpatients	Outpatients	P^a	Inpatients	Outpatients	P^a
Ampicillin	87.2	82.7	0.036^a	92.2	91.1	0.624
Amoxicillin- clavulanate	31.4	28.3	0.344	37.7	33.9	0.327
Ceftazidime	4.9	5.6	0.731	7.6	6.0	0.577
Tetracycline	83.1	81.7	0.648	82.0	75.2	0.053
Gentamicin	8.6	7.7	0.572	14.9	5.4	<0.001^a
Trimethoprim- sulfamethoxazole	86.0	81.3	0.067	82.7	74.2	0.012^a
Sulfonamides	92.1	87.8	0.510	95.2	100.0	0.553
Nitrofurantoin	33.7	33.1	0.881	52.1	58.0	0.157
Fluoroquinolones	17.8	12.7	0.217	7.2	6.7	1.000
Nalidixic acid	29.0	28.2	0.913	14.0	18.8	0.334

^a P < 0.05 (Fisher's exact test, 2-tailed) indicates statistical significance of the differences in resistance rates.

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