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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2006 May 2;59(7):760–761. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.12.009

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Nine studies published in the 1990s included comparative case-mortality data on polymicrobial and monomicrobial bloodstream infections in HIV-negative patients in U.S. hospitals. The data are shown in left-to-right order [15–23] from the lowest (14%) to the highest (43%) percentage of total infections that were polymicrobial. These data indicate a mortality gap similar to that in the earlier reports cited in the text (ie, the average mortality was 47% for polymicrobial infections and 25% for monomicrobial infections, with an average ratio of 2.15).