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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiol Infect. 2011 Feb 1;139(11):1750–1756. doi: 10.1017/S095026881100001X

Table 2.

Distribution of the ten most common pathogens causing gram-negative bloodstream infection in the referral and population-based cohorts.

Pathogen Referral cohort
N=2919
Population-based cohort
N=846
Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR*
(95% CI)
Escherichia coli 1015 (34.8) 457 (54.0) 0.45 (0.39-0.53) 0.50 (0.43-0.58)
Klebsiella pneumoniae 403 (13.8) 102 (12.1) 1.17 (0.93-1.47) 1.18 (0.93-1.49)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 419 (14.4) 55 (6.5) 2.41 (1.80-3.23) 2.26 (1.70-3.06)
Enterobacter cloacae 190 (6.5) 24 (2.8) 2.38 (1.55-3.67) 2.31 (1.53-3.66)
Acinetobacter species 114 (3.9) 20 (2.5) 1.68 (1.04-2.72) 1.52 (0.96-2.54)
Serratia marcescens 102 (3.5) 12 (1.4) 2.52 (1.38-4.60) 2.34 (1.33-4.52)
Klebsiella oxytoca 98 (3.4) 18 (2.1) 1.60 (0.99-2.74) 1.58 (0.97-2.71)
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia 67 (2.3) 1 (0.1) 19.74 (4.38-345.67) 17.94 (3.98-314.43)
Enterobacter aerogenes 51 (1.7) 10 (1.2) 1.49 (0.79-3.21) 1.40 (0.74-2.95)
Proteus mirabilis 41 (1.4) 25 (3.0) 0.47 (0.28-0.77) 0.49 (0.30-0.82)

OR: odds ratio, CI: confidence interval.

Data are given as number (%) unless otherwise specified.

*

Odds ratios in this column are adjusted for age group and gender.