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Table 8 Antibiotic susceptibility (%) of isolates

From: Assessment of the relationship between bacteriological quality of dug-wells, hygiene behaviour and well characteristics in two cholera endemic localities in Douala, Cameroon

Isolates TE CHL CIP AMP CEF SXT GEN DXT
A. Hydrophila 100 60 100 0 100 0 100 100
C. freundii 100 0 100 0 0 0 100 100
E. aerogenes 100 100 100 40 100 100 100 0
E. coli 100 0 50 0 0 0 100 0
K. pneumoniae 100 100 100 0 100 100 100 0
P. aeruginosa 0 100 100 0 100 0 100 0
S. aureus 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
S. epidermidis 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
Salmonella spp 0 50 100 0 0 0 100 0
V. cholerae 100 0 100 0 100 50 0 100
V. fluvialis 0 100 100 0 100 0 100 100
V. mimicus 100 100 100 0 100 0 100 100
V. vulnificus 100 100 100 0 100 0 100 100
Total 76.9 70 96.2 19.2 76.9 34.6 88.5 63.1
  1. TE tetracycline, CHL chloramphenicol, CIP ciprofloxacin, AMP ampicillin, CEF ceftriaxone, SXT cotrimoxazole, GEN gentamicin, DXT doxycycline.
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