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Table 1 The distribution of species and their antimicrobial susceptibility in CoNS bacteraemia

From: The species distribution, antimicrobial resistance and risk factors for poor outcome of coagulase-negative staphylococci bacteraemia in China

Species

No of isolates

(n, %)

Rate of resistance to a panel of 12 antibiotics (%)

PEN

OXA

ERY

CEF

CLN

LEV

MOX

SUL

GEN

RIF

VAN

LIN

Total

157 (100%)

94.9

93.6

92.4

78.3

73.2

72.6

71.3

59.9

22.3

10.8

0

0

S. hominis

64 (40.8%)

96.9

92.2

98.4

84.4

85.9

79.7

79.7

62.5

9.4

9.4

0

0

S. epidermidis

57 (36.3%)

96.5

96.5

87.7

75.4

61.4

61.4

59.6

71.9

28.1

15.7

0

0

S. capitis

18 (11.5%)

77.8

83.3

88.9

61.1

77.8

72.2

66.7

11.1

16.7

0

0

0

S. haemolyticus

12 (7.6%)

100

100

91.7

91.7

50

100

100

66.7

75

16.7

0

0

S. saprophyticus a

3

3

3

3

1

2

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

S. cohnii a

2

2

2

1

2

2

2

2

2

0

0

0

0

S. sciuri a

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

  1. S. Staphylococcus, PEN penicillin, OXA oxacillin, ERY erythromycin, CEF cefoxitin, CLN clindamycin, LEV levofloxacin, MOX moxifloxacin, SUL trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, GEN gentamicin, RIF rifampicin, VAN vancomycin and LIN linezolid
  2. aThe data were described as “n” since each frequency was too small