Abstract: | Objective To determine the resistance profile of clinical isolates collected at Henan Children’s Hospital to commonly used antibiotics, so enabling pediatricians to make evidence-based decision on medication. Methods All clinical isolates collected from 2016—2018 were tested. Antimicrobial susceptibility was tested using the Kirby-Bauer method and Phoenix 100 Automated Microbiology Systems, and data were analyzed according to CLSI 2017 breakpoints using WHONET5.6 software. Results A total of 21,404 isolates were analyzed, of which 36.3% were Gram positive organisms and 63.7% were Gram negative organisms. A total of 2,312 pathogenic bacteria were isolated from sterile body fluid samples. The top three bacteria were coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. The penicillin insensitivity rate of 3,105 strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from non-cerebrospinal fluid was 0.5%. The prevalence of methicillin-resistant strains was 34.2% in S. aureus (MRSA) and 72.0% in coagulase negative Staphylococcus (MRCNS). No staphylococcal strains resistant to vancomycin or linezolid were found. One E. faecium strain was identified as resistant to vancomycin. Beta-lactamase was positive in 53.7% of the H. influenzae isolates. The prevalence of ESBL-producing strains of E. coli was 70.4% in 2015, 72.1% in 2016 and 66.6% in 2017. E. coli was still highly susceptible to carbapenem antibiotics, less than 10% being resistant each year. The prevalence of ESBL-producing strains of K. pneumoniae was 61.3% in 2015, 75.6% in 2016 and 72.0% in 2017, and up to 37.7% and 38.1% of K. pneumoniae isolates were resistant to imipenem and meropenem, respectively. The resistantance rates declined over the three years period. About 22.8% and 19.6% of P. aeruginosa strains were resistant to imipenem and meropenem, respectively, and about 60.5% of A. baumannii strains were resistant to imipenem and meropenem, respectively. Conclusions The prevalence of MRSA and CRKP were still on the rise in pediatric inpatients over this period, suggesting the widespread presence of extensively drug-resistant strains. Our findings highlight the need to standardize anti-infection treatment, use antibiotics rationally, strengthen the monitoring of bacterial resistance, and to proactively control nosocomial |