2Central Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (CTRL), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;
3School of Life Science and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania;
4University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada;
5Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Correspondence: Nicholaus P Mnyambwa
Email lodnicho@gmail.com
Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest threats of modern public health. Although sub-Saharan Africa is highly burdened with infectious diseases, current data on antimicrobial resistance are sparse.
Methods: A prospective study was conducted between October 2018 and September 2019 to assess the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of clinical bacterial isolates obtained from four referral hospitals in Tanzania. We used standard media and Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion methods as per Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) stan
22 30% in Harerge, Eastern Ethiopia,
29 27% in Jimma, Southeastern Ethiopia,
30 26.6% in Wolaita Sodo, Southern Ethiopia,
31 31.2% in Hosanna, Southern Ethiopia,
32 and 43% in Brazil.
33 The variation might be due to the variability of time of investigation and sample size among the studies.
The prevalence of underweight among participants on ART in Dilla Referral Hospital, Southern Ethiopia was 12.3%,
34 which was lower than the findings of the current study. This might be due to variations in the characteristic of the population. And the magnitude of underweight among patients on ART from this study was higher than the findings 10% in Zimbabwe.
35 The difference might be associated with differences in the population and sample size between the studies.