Table 3.
Distribution of bacteria recovered from blood samples with age category of bacteremia-suspected patients at the UoG-CSH.
| Bacterial isolates | Age category | |||||||
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| <30 days (n = 580) | 1 MTH–<1 yr. (n = 535) | 1–<5 yrs. (n = 372) | 5–12 yrs. (n = 281) | 13–18 yrs. (n = 150) | 19–45 yrs. (n = 635) | >45 yrs. (n = 242) | ||
| GPB (238) | S. aureus (n = 112) | 18 | 35 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 15 | 8 |
| Enterococcus spp. (n = 49) | 14 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| CoNS (n = 23) | 7 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. viridans (n = 15) | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. pneumoniae (n = 9) | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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| Prevalence of GPB No (%) | 42 (7.24) | 63 (11.78) | 44 (11.83) | 21 (7.47) | 8 (5.33) | 22 (3.46) | 8 (3.3) | |
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| GNB (247) | K. pneumoniae (n = 119) | 56 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| E. coli (n = 44) | 11 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | |
| Acinetobacter spp. (n = 30) | 13 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Pseudomonas spp. (n = 20) | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Citrobacter spp. (n = 13) | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other NLFs (n = 21) | 5 | 5 | 1 | ;22 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
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| Prevalence of GNB No (%) | 95 (16.38) | 51 (9.53) | 39 (10.5) | 17 (6.05) | 6 (4) | 29 (4.57) | 10 (4.13) | |
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| Overall prevalence No (%) | 137 (23.62) | 114 (21.3) | 83 (22.3) | 38 (13.5) | 14 (9.33) | 51 (8.03) | 18 (7.44) | |
Note. GNB: Gram-negative bacteria; GPB: Gram-positive bacteria; MTH: months; yrs.: years; spp.: species; NLFs: nonlactose fermenters; CoNS: coagulase-negative Staphylococcus.