Table 1 Frequency of pathogenica bacterial isolates from different specimen types at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania
From: Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
Organism | Blood (%) | Spinal fluid (%) | Urine (%) | Pusb(%) | Other (%) | Overall (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gram-negative isolates | ||||||
E. coli | 27 (3.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1466 (44.2) | 417 (12.3) | 26 (21.8) | 1936 (25.4) |
Klebsiella spp. | 91 (11.8) | 8 (23.5) | 1036 (31.3) | 603 (17.9) | 33 (27.7) | 1771 (23.3) |
Pseudomonas spp. | 10 (1.3) | 2 (5.9) | 52 (1.6) | 531 (15.7) | 9 (7.6) | 604 (7.9) |
Proteus spp. | 7 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 121 (3.7) | 249 (7.4) | 3 (2.5) | 380 (5.0) |
Enterobacter spp. | 4 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 97 (2.9) | 1 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 102 (1.3) |
Salmonella spp. | 37 (4.8) | 2 (5.9) | 6 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (3.4) | 49 (0.6) |
N. gonorrhoeae | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 41 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 41 (0.5) |
Haemophilus spp. | 1 (0.1) | 5 (14.7) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (0.1) |
Other GNR | 32 (4.1) | 7 (20.6) | 12 (0.4) | 184 (5.4) | 10 (8.4) | 245 (3.2) |
Subtotal, Gram-negative isolates | 209 (27.0) | 24 (70.6) | 2790 (84.2) | 2026 (60.0) | 85 (71.4) | 5134 (67.4) |
Gram-positive isolates | ||||||
Staphylococcus aureus | 72 (9.3) | 1 (2.9) | 362 (10.9) | 1120 (33.2) | 12 (10.1) | 1567 (20.6) |
Streptococcus pyogenes | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 160 (4.7) | 2 (1.7) | 163 (2.1) |
Other streptococcic | 39 (5.0) | 3 (8.8) | 52 (1.6) | 58 (1.7) | 13 (10.9) | 165 (2.2) |
Enterococci | 3 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 64 (1.9) | 3 (0.1) | 1 (0.8) | 71 (0.9) |
S. pneumoniae | 2 (0.3) | 6 (17.6) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (0.3) | 6 (5.0) | 25 (0.3) |
CoNSa | 447 (57.8) | ... | 45 (1.4) | ... | ... | 492 (6.5) |
Subtotal, Gram-positive isolates | 564 (73.0) | 10 (29.4) | 523 (15.8) | 1352 (40.0) | 34 (28.6) | 2483 (32.6) |
Total | 773 (100.0) | 34 (100.0) | 3313 (100.0) | 3378 (100.0) | 119 (100.0) | 7617 (100.0) |