Bacterial Etiology of Bloodstream Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Malé, Maldives

Table 10

Multidrug resistance (MDR) isolates for the two-year study period.

Bacterial isolates	Number (%)	Year		value
		2016 n = 239	2017 n = 232
Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS)	62 (45.2)	37 (52.1)	25 (37.8)	≤0.001
Staphylococcus aureus	10 (7.2)	8 (11.2)	2 (3.0)	≤0.001
Enterococcus spp.	4 (3.0)	2 (2.8)	2 (3.0)	0.182
Klebsiella spp.	43 (31.3)	15 (21.1)	28 (42.4)	≤0.001
Acinetobacter spp.	4 (3.0)	3(4.2)	1 (1.5)	0.194
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	1 (0.7)	1 (1.4)	0 (0.0)	—
Escherichia coli	13 (10.0)	5 (7.0)	8 (12.1)	≤0.001
Total MDR isolates	137	71	66

Note: p values in bold indicate significant effects.