Table 3.
African American | Caucasian | |||||||
Organism | GG (n = 27) | GA (n = 118) | AA (n = 88) | P value | GG (n = 13) | GA (n = 25) | AA (n = 19) | P value |
CONS | 8 (30) | 45 (38) | 33 (38) | 0.703 | 4 (31) | 10 (40) | 11 (58) | 0.276 |
Non CONS | 3 (11) | 26 (22) | 27 (31) | 0.088 | 2 (15) | 10 (40) | 5 (26) | 0.676 |
Fungal | 2 (7) | 13 (11) | 14 (16) | 0.403 | 0 | 2 (8) | 2 (11) | 0.502 |
Gram negative bacilli | 1 (4) | 10 (9) | 6 (7) | 0.675 | 1 (8) | 4 (16) | 3 (16) | 0.755 |
Enterococcus sp. | 0 | 3 (3) | 4 (5) | 0.440 | 0 | 2 (8) | 0 | 0.265 |
Other | 1 (4) | 7 (6) | 9 (10) | 0.376 | 1 (8) | 2 (8) | 0 | 0.242 |
Numbers in parentheses represent percentages of patients with nosocomial blood stream infections