No of antibiotics Drug resistance pattern Resistant strains (No (%))
2 Pen/Oxa 4(23.53)
Pen/Fox 2(11.76)
3 Pen/Oxa/Fox 8(47.06)
4 Pen/SXT/Oxa/Fox 1(5.88)
Pen/Dox/Oxa/Fox 1(5.88)
5 Pen/SXT/Dox/Oxa/Fox 1(5.88)
Note: - Pen: Penicillin G; SXT: Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole; Fox: Cefoxitin;
Oxa: Oxacillin;
Dox: Doxycycline
Table 5: Drug resistance pattern of MRSA isolates for different antibiotics, Bahir Dar town, 2013.