Antimicrobial resistance profile of Enterococcus species isolated from intestinal tracts of hospitalized patients in Jimma, Ethiopia

Table 3 Multidrug-resistance patterns of E. faecium and E. faecalis from intestinal tract of hospitalized patients in Jimma, Ethiopia

No. of antibiotics	Resistance patterns	Number of E. faecium with pattern	Number of E. faecalis with pattern	Total number of MDR (%)
R3	AMP, HLR-GN, TE	30	5	102 (89.5)
	HLR-GN, TE, FD	16	5
	TE, FD, CIP	17	13
	FD, ERY, CL	5	11
R4	AMP, HLR-GN, TE, FD	16	3	55 (48.2)
	HLR-GN, TE, FD, CIP	16	4
	TE, FD, ERY, CL	5	11
R5	AMP, HLR-GN, TE, FD, CIP	16	2	29 (25.4)
	HLR-GN, TE, FD, ERY, CL	5	4
	TE, FD, ERY, CL, VA	2	0
R6	HLR-GN, TE, FD, ERY, CL, VA	2 (100)	0	2 (1.75)
R7	AMP, HLR-GN, TE, FD, ERY, CL, VA	2 (100)	0	2 (1.75)

MDR non-susceptible to ≥1 agent in ≥3 antimicrobial categories, R3 resistance to three antibiotics, R4 resistance to four antibiotics, R5 resistance to five antibiotics, R6 resistance to six antibiotics, R7 resistance to seven antibiotics, AMP ampicilin, HLR-GN high level resistance to gentamycin, TE tetracycline, FD Nitrofrantoin, CIP ciprofloxacin, CL chloramphenicol, ERY erythromycin, VA vancomycin.

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