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Table 1 Antibiotic resistance of CoNS isolates from faecal samples

From: Diversity of antibiotic resistance genes and staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements in faecal isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci from Nigeria

    Antimicrobial

Number (%) of resistant isolates

MRCoNS (n = 15)

MSCoNS (n = 38)

Total (n = 53)

Penicillin V (PEN)

15 (100)

38 (100)

53 (100)

Oxacillin (OXA)

15 (100)

0 (0)

15 (28.3)

Gentamicin (GEN)

1 (6.7)

2 (5.3)

3 (5.7)

Erythromycin (ERY)

1 (6.7)

4 (10.5)

5 (9.4)

Tetracycline (TET)

1 (6.7)

6 (15.8)

7 (13.2)

Co-trimoxazole (COT)

14 (93.3)

5 (13.2)

19 (35.8)

Chloramphenicol (CL)

2 (13.3)

2 (5.3)

4 (7.5)

Amoxicillin-clavulanate (AMC)

15 (100)

16 (42.1)

31 (58.5)

Ciprofloxacin (CIP)

1 (6.7)

0 (0)

1 (1.9)

Pefloxacin (PEF)

(0)

0 (0)

0 (0)