Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance pattern of bacterial meningitis in Egypt

Table 2 Antibiotic resistant N. meningitidis isolates.

*N. meningitidis*	PEN	AMP	CHL	CRO	SXT	Number of isolates tested
ES ^1998-2000 [4]	R = 0%	NA	NA	NA	NA	-8
						-CSF
ES ^1997-2000 [1]	NA	I = 84%	I = 0%	I = 17%	NA	-48
		R = 2%	R = 0%	R = 2%		-CSF and blood
ES ^1998-2004 [2]	R = 1%	R = 5%	NA	NA	R = 86	-68
					%	-CSF

The percentage of non-susceptible N. meningitidis isolates to five conventional antibiotics to N. meningitidis isolated from CSF and/or blood in three studies conducted from1998-2004.
The antibiotic abbreviations: PEN, penicillin; AMP, ampicillin; CHL, chloramphenicol; CRO, ceftriaxone; TET, tetracycline; SXT, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole; and NA refers to data not available.
(Intermediate resistance is abbreviated as I, and Resistance as R)

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