Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Shigella among acute diarrheal outpatients in Mekelle hospital, Northern Ethiopia

Table 3 Multidrug resistance pattern of Shigella isolates from outpatients with acute diarrhea at Mekelle hospital (September to November, 2014)

Number of antimicrobial resistance	Shigella species
Number of antimicrobial resistance	Resistance antibiogram^a	Number of isolates (%)
Ro	None	None
R1	AMP	1 (6.7)
R2	AMP, AML	1 (6.7)
R2	AMP, AMC	1 (6.7)
R3	AMP, C, AML	1 (6.7)
R3	AMP, AML, SXT	1 (6.7)
R4	AMP, C, AML, SXT	4 (26.7)
	AMP, AML, AMC, SXT	3 (20)
	AMP, C, AML, AMC	1 (6.7)
R5	AMP, AML, SXT, CIP, CN	1 (6.7)
R6	AMP, C, AML, SXT, NOR, CN	1 (6.7)

AMP amoxicillin, C chloramphenicol, AML amoxicillin, AMC amoxicillin clavulanic acid, SXT sulphamethoxazole trimethoprim, NOR norfloxacin, CIP ciprofloxacin, CN gentamicin
^aRo, R1,R2,R3,R4,R5,R6 = Sensitive to all, resistant to one, two, three, four, five and six antibiotics respectively

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