TABLE 2.
Species and quantitative blood cultures of viridans streptococci
| Streptococcus species | Total (%) | Distribution of no. of colonies per culture
|
Single species | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <10 | 10 to 49 | 50 to 99 | 100 to 199 | ≥200 | Meana | |||
| S. mitis | 25 (50.0) | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 38.8 | 22 |
| All non-S. mitis | 25 (50.0) | 18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4.8 | 16 | |
| Streptococcus sp. | 11 (22.0) | 7 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| S. parasanguis | 5 (10.0) | 5 | ||||||
| S. anginosus | 3 (6.0) | 2 | 1 | |||||
| S. salivarius | 2 (4.0) | 1 | 1 | |||||
| S. gordonii | 1 (2.0) | 1 | ||||||
| S. sanguis | 1 (2.0) | 1 | ||||||
| S. sobrinus | 1 (2.0) | 1 | ||||||
| S. vestibularis | 1 (2.0) | 1 | ||||||
| Total or P value | 50 (100) | 27 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 7 | P = 0.001 | P = 0.047 |
a
Geometric mean.