Table 1.
Sources of bacterial isolates in the study from 2006 to 2010
| Bacterium(a) (no. of isolates) | No. of isolates from clinical specimen: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood | Pleural effusion | Ascites | Cerebrospinal fluid | Sputum | Urine | Pus | Pus (intra-abdominal infection) | Other | |
| MRSA (1,834) | 642 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 204 | 18 | 872 | 20 | 46 |
| PRSP (423) | 117 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 189 | 0 | 107 | 0 | 3 |
| VRE (219) | 48 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 66 | 67 | 6 | 15 |
| ESBL-producing E. coli (1,141) | 416 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 136 | 295 | 197 | 48 | 17 |
| ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae (1,330) | 377 | 20 | 21 | 5 | 414 | 202 | 224 | 49 | 18 |
| A. baumannii (1,645) | 491 | 14 | 19 | 9 | 674 | 78 | 305 | 17 | 38 |
| S. maltophilia (903) | 245 | 13 | 20 | 9 | 408 | 24 | 136 | 27 | 21 |