Research Article
Emergence of Highly Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Isolated from Patients with Infections Admitted to Public Hospitals in Southwest Iran
Table 2
Distribution of bacteria isolated from patients with infections in different hospital wards.
| | Microorganism | Hospital ward | | Internal medicine | Surgical wards | Pediatric ward | NICU | ICU | CCU | Emergency department | | Number of isolates (%) |
| | Acinetobacter spp. | 25 (4.9) | 29 (7.1) | 19 (8.2) | 32 (15.0) | 59 (28.9) | 18 (13.6) | 3 (4.0) | | Enterobacter spp. | 18 (3.5) | 16 (3.9) | 5 (2.2) | 2 (0.9) | 6 (2.9) | 12 (9.1) | 3 (4.0) | | Enterococcus spp. | 10 (1.9) | 38 (9.3) | 7 (3.0) | 13 (6.1) | 25 (12.2) | 18 (13.6) | 6 (8.0) | | Escherichia coli | 265 (51.6) | 168 (41.1) | 105 (45.4) | 49 (23.0) | 30 (14.7) | 13 (9.8) | 29 (38.7) | | Klebsiella spp. | 94 (18.3) | 22 (5.4) | 35 (15.1) | 38 (17.8) | 15 (7.3) | 26 (19.7) | 18 (24) | | Proteus spp. | 19 (3.7) | 18 (4.4) | 4 (1.7) | 7 (3.3) | 5 (2.4) | 6 (4.5) | 4 (5.3) | | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 19 (3.7) | 26 (6.4) | 15 (6.5) | 34 (15.9) | 27 (13.2) | 19 (14.4) | 2 (2.7) | | Staphylococcus aureus | 34 (6.6) | 62 (15.2) | 6 (2.6) | 13 (6.1) | 9 (4.4) | 8 (6.1) | 2 (2.7) | | Staphylococcus epidermidis | 14 (2.7) | 16 (3.9) | 12 (5.2) | 8 (3.7) | 18 (8.8) | 6 (4.5) | 3 (4.0) | | Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 3 (0.6) | 7 (1.7) | 5 (2.2) | 3 (1.4) | 3 (1.5) | 2 (1.5) | 1 (1.3) | | Streptococcus pneumoniae | 9 (1.7) | 0 | 17 (7.4) | 12 (5.6) | 5 (2.4) | 3 (2.3) | 3 (4.0) | | Other nonfermentative bacteria | 4 (0.8) | 7 (1.7) | 1 (0.4) | 2 (0.9) | 2 (1.0) | 1 (0.8) | 1 (1.3) | | Total | 514 | 409 | 231 | 213 | 204 | 132 | 75 |
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