Antibiotic susceptibility of blood culture isolates in neonates
| Pathogen | Prevalence weighted for study size (from table 2) % | Susceptibility weighted for study size (from table 3) % | Susceptibility weighted for prevalence % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penicillin | Gentamicin | Third-generation cephalosporins | Penicillin/gentamicin | Third-generation cephalosporins | ||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 26 | 14 | 8 | 63 | 20.8 | 16.4 |
| Klebsiella spp. | 21 | 3 | 28 | 43 | 5.8 | 9.0 |
| Escherichia coli | 8 | 22 | 52 | 36 | 4.2 | 2.9 |
| Salmonella spp. | 3 | 2 | 67 | 97 | 2.0 | 2.9 |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 2 | 94 | 58 | 95 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus) | 2 | 100 | 2 | 65 | 2.0 | 1.3 |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | 1 | 100 | 44 | 100 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Pseudomonas spp. | 2 | 61 | 64 | 100 | 1.3 | 2.0 |
| Other streptococci | 2 | 97 | 93 | 63 | 1.94 | 1.3 |
| Haemophilus influenzae | 1 | 54 | 0 | 100 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| Acinetobacter spp. | 1 | 18 | 21 | 47 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Coagulase negative staphylococci | 1 | 19 | 55 | 91 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
| Enterobacter spp. | 1 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Citrobacter spp. | 1 | |||||
| Chromobacterium spp. | 1 | |||||
| Serratia spp. | 1 | 0 | 47 | 33 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Proteus spp. | 1 | 55 | 99 | 100 | 0.1 | 1.0 |
| Enterococcus | 1 | 30 | 49 | 100 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| Neisseria meningitidis | 1 | 100 | 1.0 | |||
| Flavobacterium spp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other Gram-positive organisms | 1 | 65 | 50 | 0 | 0.7 | 0 |
| Unidentified Gram-negative organisms | 7 | 14 | 47 | 61 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
| Total | 86 | 49.4 | 47.8 | |||
| Total 100/86 | 57.4 | 55.6 | ||||