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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2011 Jun;39(6):1251–1256. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31820a942c

Table 2.

Microbial etiology of pulmonary aspiration

Pathogens N
Streptococcus pneumoniae 1
Staphylococcus aureus 6
Streptococcus species 5
Hemophilus influenzae 2
Serratia species 1
Escherichia coli 6
Klebsiella pneumoniae 3
Enterobacter sp. 2
Prevotella species 5
Fusobacterium species 1
Peptostreptococcus species 4