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. 2011 Dec;3(4):162–169.

Table 3.

Results of culture and real-time PCR for Acinetobacter baumannii detected from patients with pneumonia at Tehran Hospitals.

patients ID CFU in Culture Copy numbers inRT-pCR1 poly microbial infection
L1 10,000 7.36E+03 P. aeroginosa
L46 100,000 2.40E+5 S. aureus
L51 100,000 2.41E+05
L59 50,000 9.62E+04 E. fecalis
L76 100,000 4.98E+07 P. aeroginosa
L99 50,000 6.70E+04
R9 50,000 2.37E+04 E. coli K. pneumoniae
R19 100,000 2.61E+07 E. fecalis S. epidermidis
R22 100,000 1.75E+06
R25 50,000 7.20E+05 P. aeroginosa E. fecalis
R27 100,000 2.90E+05
R34 50,000 6.34E+04 P. aeroginosa
R39 10,000 6.73E+03
R45 100,000 3.21E+05
E20 10,000 7.41E+05
E30 50,000 2.81E+06 S. epideremidis
E39 50,000 2.17E+04 S. aureus
E43 10,000 1.24E+04
E48 10,000 3.42E+04 S. maltophilia P. aeroginosa
E65 100,000 8.07E+09 A. niger
E67 100,000 7.25E+09
E70 5,000 8.97E+03
E73 100,000 8.46E+08 Candida spp. S. epidermidis
E74 10,000 2.31E+04
E77 5,000 3.54E+03 S. aureus
E87 50,000 8.21E+04
E88 50,000 4.67E+04
E89 100,000 9.02E+10 S. epidermidis
E92 10,000 1.57E+04 S. aureus
E95* < 500* 756 S. aureus
E97 100,000 5.98E+08 Alcaligenes sp.
M3 < 5,000 3974
M11 100,000 4.29E+07
M27 10,000 5. 15E+04
M44 50,000 4.26E+06 K. pneumoniae
M 68 100,000 1.46E+09
M82 100,000 1.38E+07 S. maltophila
CAP 10,000 7750
1

1-Real time-PCR was run in duplicate.

*

Antibiotic regimen was changed to polymyxin B before sampling.