Table 2 Microorganisms and sources of infection.

	Cutaneous	Dental	ENT	Surgery	Other	Unknown	Total
Streptococci
Streptococcus spp	1	9	0	1	0	7	18
adjacens (Abiotrophia adjacens)	0	2	1	1	0	1	5
constellatus	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
gordonii	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
intermedius	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
mitis	0	4	1	1	0	0	6
mutans	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
oralis	0	7	0	1	0	0	8
sanguis	0	7	1	0	0	7	15
pneumoniae	0	0	3	0	1*	1	5
Enterococci
faecalis	0	1	0	0	1†	0	2
Staphylococci
aureus	15	1	1	12‡	1*	9	39
Coagulase negative	0	0	0	1	0	4	5
capitis	0	0	0	1‡	0	0	1
Gram‐negative bacilli
Acinetobacter spp	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Escherichia coli	0	0	0	3	1§	1	5
Klebsiella oxytoca	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
Brucella melitensis	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Kingella kingae	0	0	0	0	1†	0	1
Gram‐positive bacilli
Lactobacillus spp	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Propionibacterium acnes	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Corynebacterium spp	0	0	1	0	0	3	4
Others
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Coxiella burnetii	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Aspergillus spp	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Unknown	0	4	2	3	5¶	7	21
Total	16	40	10	27	10	50	153

*Pulmonary; †digestive; ‡including one pacemaker; §urological; ¶four digestive and one urological.

ENT, ear, nose and throat.