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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2012 Aug 30;33(4):302–306. doi: 10.1038/jp.2012.111

Table 3.

Proportion of UTIs concordant with blood and CSF cultures

Organism Blood CSF
Gram-positive cocci 52/318(16%) 2/24 (8%)
 CoNS 30/146 (21%) 1/9 (11%)
 Enterococcus 10/128 (8%) 0/10(0%)
 Group B Streptococcus 6/24 (25%) 1/2 (50%)
 Staphylococcus aureus 5/12 (42%) 0/2 (0%)
Gram-negative rods 34/478 (7%) 0/34 (0%)
 Escherichia coli 10/173 (6%) 0/13 (0%)
 Enterobacter 12/108 (11%) 0/8 (0%)
 Klebsiella 4/92 (4%) 0/5 (0%)
 Serratia 3/35 (9%) 0/2 (0%)
 Pseudomonas 2/27 (7%) 0/4 (0%)
 Proteus 2/13 (15%) 0/0
Candida 41/147 (28%) 0/19 (0%)

Abbreviations: CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; CoNS, coagulase-negative staphylococci.