Table 2.
The prevalence of Gram-positive bacteria isolated from blood cultures of hospitalized patients from 2015 to 2019
| Organism | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| CONS | 138 | 54 | 169 | 56 | 172 | 57 | 100 | 43 | 118 | 55 | 697 | 53.1 |
| Streptococcus spp. | 56 | 22 | 64 | 21 | 50 | 16 | 49 | 21 | 18 | 8 | 237 | 18.1 |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 34 | 13 | 37 | 12 | 43 | 14 | 47 | 20 | 41 | 19 | 202 | 15.4 |
| Enterococcus faecium | 0 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 37 | 12 | 34 | 14 | 27 | 13 | 122 | 9.3 |
| Enterococcus spp. | 28 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2.1 |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 1.3 |
| Corynebacterium spp. | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.4 |
| Micrococcus spp. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.3 |
| 256 | 302 | 304 | 235 | 215 | 1312 | |||||||
CONS coagulase-negative staphylococci