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Table 2 Comparison of antibiotic resistance for Escherichia coli in the study and in routine laboratory dataa

From: Uncomplicated urinary tract infections in Swedish primary care; etiology, resistance and treatment

Antibiotic tested/resistance mechanism

Resistance in primary care

No of samples

n (%)

(n = 176)

Resistance reported from the laboratoryb

No of samples

n (%)

(n = 23,179)

p-value

Mecillinam

2 (1.1)

714 (3.1)

0.18c

Nitrofurantoin

0 (0)

184 (0.8)

0.66c

Trimethoprim

30 (17.0)

4612 (19.9)

0.35d

Cefadroxil

4 (2.3)

1223 (5.3)

0.087c

Ciprofloxacin

2 (1.1)

1400 (6.0)

0.0022c

ESBL-producing

4 (2.3)

807 (3.5)

0.53c

  1. aUrine samples from women during November 2014 to March 2016
  2. bThe Department of laboratory medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology in Lund
  3. cThe Fisher exact test
  4. dChi2 test