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Table 2 Bacterial isolates obtained from sputum and throat swab samples of patients with respiratory infections in MTRH

From: Study of bacterial respiratory infections and antimicrobial susceptibility profile among antibiotics naive outpatients visiting Meru teaching and referral hospital, Meru County, Kenya in 2018

Sputum samples

n = 125

Bacterial isolate

Number

Throat swab samples n = 50

Bacterial isolate

Number

Pseudomonas species

64 (51.2)

Streptococcus pyogenes

24 (48.0)

Klebsiella species

36 (28.8)

Staphylococcus aureus

19 (38.0)

Streptococcus pneumoniae

11 (8.8)

Streptococcus pneumoniae

07 (14.0)

Staphylococcus aureus

Mixed isolates

10 (8.0)

04 (3.2)

  
  1. Key: *Values in parenthesis represent percentage of bacterial isolates