TABLE 2.

Patient characteristics and isolate collection

Patient	Underlying diseasea	Duration (days) of intubation before documented colonization	No. of isolates analyzed (genotype)
1	Drug overdose	10	34 (K)
2	Polytrauma	9	34 (L)
3	COPD and bronchiectasis	1	10 (C)
			24 (F)
4	Polytrauma	10	11 (B)
			23 (C)
5	Nonpseudomonal sepsis	2	8 (C)
			26 (I)
6	Nonpseudomonal pneumonia	10	34 (H)
7	Brain hemorrhage	14	34 (A)
8	Polytrauma	9	6 (B)
			28 (D)
9	Myocardial infarct	2	34 (B)
10	Polytrauma	7	34 (A)
11	Polytrauma	3	34 (B)
12	Polytrauma	5	22 (B)
			12 (C)
13	Congestive heart failure	2	34 (B)

^aCOPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.