*3.4. Multiple Antibiotic Resistance (MAR)/MAR Phenotypes of S. aureus*

All isolates tested were multi-drug resistant, (100%; 30/30) (resistant to three or more antimicrobials), with 3 isolates resistant to 12 of the 15 antibiotics tested. Resistance to 8 antibiotics was the most common, shown by 5 (16.7%) isolates, followed by resistance to 4 and 5 antibiotics recorded by 4 (13.3%) isolates each. Twenty-three different MAR patterns were observed from the 30 isolates. The most common of these were PG-GM-VA-T-AP-FOX-CIP-CD-RP-DO-SXT-E-OX, PG-VA-T-AP-FOX-CD-RP-DO-SXT-E-OX and PG-VA-AP-FOX-CD-RP-SXT-E-OX, observed in 3 (10%), 2 (6.7%), and 2 (6.7%) isolates, respectively.
