Table 3.
All patients meeting criteria for RGM infection by either AFB culture, routine culture, or both in the after period
| Culture meeting infection criteria | Patient no. | No. (%) of patients |
% nonpseud GNR+b routine cultures | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Routine culture |
AFB culture |
|||||
| Cultures performed | RGM+a | Cultures performed | RGM+ | |||
| Both AFB and routine cultures | 1 | 22 | 4 (18) | 20 | 3 (15) | 91 |
| 2 | 8 | 2 (25) | 8 | 2 (25) | 25 | |
| 3 | 11 | 3 (27) | 7 | 6 (86) | 0 | |
| 4 | 9 | 3 (33) | 7 | 5 (71) | 67 | |
| 5 | 16 | 6 (38) | 6 | 4 (67) | 19 | |
| 6 | 22 | 11 (50) | 15 | 11 (73) | 50 | |
| 7 | 7 | 4 (57) | 6 | 5 (83) | 100 | |
| 8 | 16 | 10 (63) | 15 | 9 (60) | 0 | |
| 9 | 12 | 9 (75) | 11 | 10 (91) | 83 | |
| 10 | 14 | 11 (79) | 7 | 4 (57) | 0 | |
| 11 | 14 | 12 (86) | 12 | 12 (100) | 0 | |
| 12 | 9 | 9 (100) | 10 | 10 (100) | 0 | |
| Routine cultures only | 13 | 9 | 4 (44) | 4 | 1 (25) | 0 |
| 14 | 7 | 3 (43) | 3 | 0 (0) | 14 | |
| 15 | 13 | 6 (46) | 3 | 1 (33) | 92 | |
| 16 | 13 | 2 (15) | 3 | 0 (0) | 15 | |
| AFB cultures only | 17 | 15 | 1 (7) | 13 | 2 (15) | 87 |
| 18 | 8 | 1 (13) | 3 | 2 (67) | 88 | |
| 19 | 3 | 0 (0) | 3 | 2 (67) | 0 | |
| 20 | 13 | 1 (8) | 13 | 12 (92) | 100 | |
a
RGM+, RGM positive.
b
Nonpseud GNR+, nonpseudomonal Gram-negative rod (Stenotrophomonas, Achromobacter, or Burkholderia species) positive.