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Table 3 Resistance pattern of isolated organisms to antibiotics (numbers and percentages)

From: Risk factors and practices contributing to newborn sepsis in a rural district of Eastern Uganda, August 2013: a cross sectional study

Drug

Penicillin

Cloxacillin

Chloramphenicol

Gentamicin

Staphylococcus aureus n/12 (%)

12 (100)

0 (0)

5 (41.7)

0 (0)

Neisseria meningitidis n/11 (%)

11 (100)

0 (0)

8 (72.7)

0 (0)

Escherichia coli n/5 (%)

5 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Streptococcus pyogenes n/4 (%)

4 (100)

2 (50)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Haemophilus influenzae n/2 (%)

0 (0)

2 (100)

2 (100)

0 (0)

Salmonella species n/2 (%)

2 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Klebsiella pneumoniae n/1 (%)

1 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Streptococcus pneumoniae n/1 (%)

1 (100)

1 (100)

0 (0)

0 (0)