Volume 9, Number 2—February 2003
Research
Using Hospital Antibiogram Data To Assess Regional Pneumococcal Resistance to Antibiotics
Cheryl R. Stein*, David J. Weber*, and Meera Kelley*
Table 1
Streptococcus pneumoniae susceptibility to nine antimicrobial agents, North Carolina, 1996–2000
| Year | Percent of all isolates susceptible toa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penicillin | Erythromycin | Cefotaxime | Levofloxacin | Tmp-smxb | Tetracycline | Clindamycin | Vancomycin | Chloram-phenicol | |
| 1996 |
65 (18; 1,854) |
78 (4; 488) |
85(9; 985) |
100 (1; 205) |
64 (5; 626) |
96 (2; 254) |
90(4; 492) |
100 (7; 580) |
93 (2; 381) |
| 1997 |
63 (24; 2,406) |
69 (11; 786) |
80 (13; 1,272) |
100 (1; 283) |
57 (11; 786) |
79 (4; 66) |
76 (7; 655) |
100 (11; 903) |
95 (3; 117) |
| 1998 |
56 (33; 2,827) |
64 (17; 1,095) |
83 (20; 1,970) |
92 (4; 237) |
51 (16; 975) |
83 (10; 402) |
88 (11; 606) |
100 (19; 1202) |
89 (10; 520) |
| 1999 |
54 (36; 3,562) |
61 (20; 1,397) |
80 (22; 2,062) |
94 (5; 525) |
51 (16; 1,068) |
84 (10; 406) |
85 (13; 1,017) |
100 (21; 1308) |
92 (9; 540) |
| 2000 | 52 (42; 3,497) | 61 (27; 1,762) | 77 (27; 2,296) | 98 (12; 822) | 50 (20; 1,292) | 81 (14; 717) | 88 (18; 1,238) | 100 (26; 1,648) | 94 (12; 730) |
aValues in parentheses are number of hospitals contributing data and total number of isolates reported, respectively
bTmp-smx, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
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