Antibiotic susceptibility of blood culture isolates in infants aged 1–12 months
| Pathogen | Prevalence weighted for study size (from table 2) | Susceptibility weighted for study size (from table 3) | Susceptibility weighted for prevalence | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penicillin | Gentamicin | Chloramphenicol | Third-generation cephalosporins | Penicillin gentamicin | Chloramphenicol | Third-generation cephalosporins | ||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 22 | 14 | 80 | 48 | 63 | 17.6 | 10.6 | 13.9 |
| Klebsiella spp. | 10 | 3 | 28 | 22 | 43 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 4.3 |
| Escherichia coli | 10 | 22 | 52 | 38 | 36 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| Salmonella spp. | 8 | 2 | 67 | 46 | 97 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 7.8 |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 9 | 94 | 58 | 94 | 95 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.6 |
| Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus) | 1 | 100 | 2 | 100 | 65 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | 2 | 100 | 44 | 100 | 100 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Pseudomonas spp. | 4 | 61 | 64 | 100 | 2.6 | 4.0 | ||
| Other streptococci | 3 | 97 | 93 | 100 | 63 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 1. 9 |
| Haemophilus influenzae | 4 | 54 | 0 | 54 | 100 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 4.0 |
| Acinetobacter spp. | 2 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 47 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 |
| Coagulase negative staphylococci | 1 | 19 | 55 | 19 | 91 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| Enterobacter spp. | 1 | 6 | 25 | 6 | 20 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Citrobacter spp. | 1 | |||||||
| Chromobacterium spp. | 1 | |||||||
| Serratia spp. | 1 | 0 | 47 | 39 | 33 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Proteus spp. | 1 | 55 | 99 | 91 | 100 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
| Enterococcus | 0 | 30 | 49 | 57 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Neisseria meningitidis | 1 | 100 | 100 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |||
| Flavobacterium spp. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Other Gram-positive organisms | 1 | 65 | 50 | 69 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0 |
| Unidentified Gram-negative organisms | 7 | 14 | 47 | 27 | 61 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 4.3 |
| Total | 91 | 57.7 | 42.4 | 58.3 | ||||
| Total 100/91 | 63.4 | 46.5 | 64.0 | |||||