TABLE 1.

Organisms recovered from blood cultures from patients with significant bacteremia or fungemia^a

Organism	No. of isolates recovered in:							Totals
	Ctr 1	Ctr 2	Ctr 3	Ctr 4	Ctr 5	Ctr 6	Ctr 7
S. aureus	67	45	61	38	51	57	63	382
CONS	15	13	9	43	65	9	6	160
Enterococcus spp.	18	24	15	25	13	23	21	139
Other GPC	10	13	10	6	9	20	28	96
E. coli	24	24	33	28	19	30	38	196
Enterobacter cloacae	8	5	5	4	3	4	4	33
P. aeruginosa	8	13	7	4	12	4	14	62
K. pneumoniae	18	20	12	20	8	20	10	108
Other GNB	27	31	15	7	19	23	28	150
Anaerobic bacteria	4	7	10	0	10	1	6	38
Yeast	0	16	22	4	13	15	2	72
Totals	199	211	199	179	222	206	220	1,436

^aCONS, coagulase-negative staphylococci; Ctr, center; GB, gram-negative bacilli; GPC, gram-positive cocci.