Table 2.
Bloodstream Isolates in Patients with Severe Aplastic Anemia
| Microbiological organism | Total (n=174) | Group 1 (n=43) | Group 2 (n=51) | Group 3 (n=80) |
| Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species | 56 | 23 | 13 | 20 |
| Unspecified coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| Staphylococcus epidermis | 31 | 14 | 8 | 9 |
| Staphylococcus haemolyticus | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Other gram-positive coccia | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Enterococcus faecium | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Enterococcus species | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gram-positive bacilli | 16 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| Unspecified gram-positive bacilli species | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Corynebacterium species | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Clostridium ramosum | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Clostridium speticum | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Other gram-positive bacillib | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Enterobacteriaceae | 32 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| Escherichia coli | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Enterobacter aerogenes | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Proteus mirabilis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Klebsiella pneumonia | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| Klebsiella oxytoca | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Fermenter species | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa and non–lactose fermenters | 21 | 7 | 3 | 11 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Other Pseudomonas species | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Sphingomonas paucimobilis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Capnocytophaga sputigena | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Acinetobacter species | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Candida species and other yeasts | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Candida albicans | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Candida tropicalis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Candida krusei | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Candida glabrata | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Malassezia furfur | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Filamentous fungi- Alternaria species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Anaerobic bacteria | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Bacteroides species | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Leptotrichia species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bifidobacterium species | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Propionibacterium acnes | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Atypical mycobacteriac | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
a
Staphylococcus captitis ureolyticus, Staphylococcus hominis, Micrococcus, Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Stomatococcus mucilaginosus, and Gemella morbillorum.
b
Lactobacillus species, Brevibacter casei, and Rothia mucilaninosus.
c
Mycobacterium chelonae, Mycobacterium porcinum, and Mycobacterium mycogenicum.