Table 3.

Microbiology of the cerebrospinal fluid culture in the 91 patients with monoorganism culture-positive nosocomial meningitis^a

MSCNS, methicillin sensitive coagulase negative Staphylococcus; MRCNS, methicillin resistant coagulase negative Staphylococcus; MSSA, methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

^aEight patients showed multiple organisms in the cerebrospinal fluid culture as follows: A. baumannii, E. coli and MSCNS (1), Enterococcus and S. maltophilia (1), Enterococcus and MRCNS (1), Enterococcus and MRSA (1), Enterococcus, MRCNS and S. maltophilia (1), Enterococcus, A. baumannii, P. aerusinosa, Enterobacter, E. coli, S. maltophilia and Providencia rettgeri (1), Enterococcus, Klebsiella pneumoniae and α-hemolytic Streptococcus (1), Acinetobacter, MRCNS (1).