Volume 16, Number 6—June 2010
Dispatch
Causes of Infection after Earthquake, China, 2008
Yue Wang, Peng Hao, Bo Lu, Hua Yu, Wenfang Huang, Hongliang Hou, and Kerong Dai
Table 2
Antimicrobial susceptibility of 180 strains of gram-negative bacilli isolated from persons injured during earthquake, Wenchuan, China, 2008
| Organism | No. | No. (%) specimens susceptible, by antimicrobial drug* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMK | AZT | CAZ | CIP | FEP | GM | IMP | SMZ | TZP | ||
| A. baumannii | 74 | 16 (21.6) | 0 | 5 (6.8) | 7 (9.5) | 15 (20.1) | 0 | 26 (35.1) | 10 (13.5) | 12 (16.2) |
| Escherichia coli | 36 | 36 (100) | 13 (36.1) | 13 (36.1) | 0 | 11 (30.6) | 10 (27.8) | 35 (97.2) | 11 (30.6) | 28 (77.8) |
| Enteric bacilli | 30 | 15 (50.0) | 10 (33.3) | 10 (33.3) | 8 (26.7) | 13 (43.3) | 13 (43.3 | 30 (100) | 8 (26.7) | 10 (33.3 |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 22 | 20 (90.9) | 4 (18.2) | 7 (31.8) | 0 | 7 (31.8) | 4 (18.2) | 22 (100) | 4 (18.2) | 7 (31.8) |
| P. aeruginosa | 18 | 18 (100) | 4 (22.2) | 11 (61.1) | 12 (66.7) | 11 (61.1) | 15 (83.3) | 17 (94.4) | 0 | 15 (83.3) |
| Total | 180 | 105 (58.3) | 31 (17.2) | 46 (25.6) | 27 (15.0) | 57 (31.7) | 42 (23.3) | 130 (72.2) | 33 (18.3) | 72 (40.0) |
*Semisusceptible results were considered resistant. AMK, amikacin; AZT, aztreonam; CAZ, ceftazidime; CIP, ciprofloxacin; FEP, cefepime; GM, gentamicin; IMP, imipenem; SMZ,sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim; TZP, tazobactam/piperacillin; A. baumannii, Acinetobacter baumannii; P. aeruginosa, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
