Association between Consumption of Fluoroquinolones and Carbapenems and Their Resistance Rates in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Argentina

Table 3

The carbapenem and fluoroquinolone resistance rates in Pseudomonas aeruginosa according to each geographical region of Argentina during 2018.

Type of resistance	S	Capital city (CABA)			Buenos Aires (BUE)			Center (CEN)			Cuyo region (CUYO)			North (NOR)			Patagonia (PAT)
		I	NRI	%	I	NRI	%	I	NRI	%	I	NRI	%	I	%	NRI	I	NRI	%
Resistance to fluoroquinolone	U	340	124	36.5	288	95	33.0	190	57	30.0	123	29	23.6	162	37	22.8	131	42	32.4
	B	154	59	38.3	145	43	29.7	53	14	26.4	42	9	21.4	87	18	20.7	41	9	22.0
Resistance to carbapenem	U	336	83	24.7	292	50	17.1	192	33	17.2	120	15	12.5	162	18	11.1	130	31	23.8
	B	159	45	28.3	145	47	32.4	55	10	18.2	41	7	17.1	90	15	16.7	43	3	7.01

S: sample type; U: urine sample; B: blood sample; I: isolations; NRI: no. resistant isolations; CABA: capital city of Buenos Aires (capital of Argentina); BUE: Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Province); CEN: center (Cordoba, Santa Fe, Entre Rios); CUYO: Cuyo region (Mendoza, San Juan, San Luis); NOR: North (Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman, Catamarca; La Rioja, Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero; Corrientes y Misiones).