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Frequency (percentage) of bacterial and fungal pathogens* cultured from community-acquired† and hospital-acquired‡ bloodstream infection |
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| Organism |
CA† |
HA‡ |
Total |
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| Klebsiella spp. |
19 (12.3) |
34 (24.5) |
53 (18.0) |
| - Klebsiella pneumoniae |
17 |
31 |
48 |
| Salmonellae |
27 (17.4) |
12 (8.6) |
39 (13.3) |
| - Salmonella serovar Typhii |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| - Salmonella serovar Enteritidis |
14 |
6 |
20 |
| - Salmonella serovar Typhimurium |
11 |
5 |
16 |
| - Salmonella serovar Newport |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Escherichia coli |
24 (15.5) |
13 (9.4) |
37 (12.6) |
| Enterobacter spp. |
5 (3.2) |
4 (2.9) |
9 (3.1) |
| - Enterobacter cloacae |
2 |
4 |
6 |
| - Other Enterobacter spp. |
3 |
0 |
3 |
| Other Enterobacteriaceae |
4 (2.6) |
2 (1.4) |
6 (2.0) |
| - Pantoea spp. |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| - Serratia marcescens |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| - Shigella flexnerii |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| - Citrobacter freundii |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| - Proteus mirabilis |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Total Enterobacteriaceae |
79 (51.0) |
65 (46.8) |
144 (49.0) |
| Acinetobacter spp. |
3 (1.9) |
9 (6.5) |
12 (4.1) |
| - Acinetobacter baumannii |
0 |
5 |
5 |
| - Acinetobacter lwoffii |
3 |
2 |
5 |
| - Acinetobacter spp. |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
7 (4.5) |
6 (4.3) |
13 (4.4) |
| Other Non-Enterobacteriaceae |
6 (3.9) |
5 (3.6) |
11 (3.7) |
| Pseudomonas spp. |
4 |
1 |
5 |
| Sphingomonas paucimobilis |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Chryseobacterium spp. |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Moraxella spp. |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Total non-EnterobacteriaceaeGNR |
16 (10.3) |
20 (14.4) |
36 (12.2) |
| GNR not further specified |
5 (3.2) |
2 (1.4) |
7 (2.4) |
| Total GNR |
100 (64.5) |
87 (62.6) |
187 (63.6) |
| Staphylococcus aureus |
13 (8.4) |
17 (12.2) |
30 (10.2) |
| Enterococci |
24 (15.5) |
19 (13.7) |
43 (14.6) |
| - Enterococcus faecium |
12 |
9 |
21 |
| - Enterococcus faecalis |
9 |
6 |
15 |
| - Enterococcus spp. |
3 |
4 |
7 |
| Streptococci |
3 (1.9) |
5 (3.6) |
8 (2.7) |
| - Group B streptococci |
1 |
3 |
4 |
| - Streptococcus viridans |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| - Streptococci, not further identified |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Total Gram-positive |
40 (25.8) |
41 (29.5) |
81 (27.6) |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
0 (0.0) |
1 (0.5) |
1 (0.3) |
| Candida spp. |
15 (9.7) |
10 (7.2) |
25 (8.5) |
| Total |
155 (100.0) |
139 (100.0) |
294 (100.0) |
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GNR, Gram-negative rods. *The percentage refers to the proportion of all pathogenic bacterial and fungal isolates. Anaerobes, coagulase-negative staphylococci and bacterial isolates of uncertain pathogenicity were not included. † CA: Community-acquired infection, i.e. blood-culture obtained ≤ 48 hours from of admission. ‡ Hospital-acquired infection: Blood-culture obtained > 48 hours from admission. | |||
Blomberg et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2007 7:43 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-7-43 |
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