Table 2.
Statistical analysis of specific microorganism success rate and tight obstruction of NLD. The underlined numbers are the statistically significant values.
| Type | Total No. | Total |
Tight obstruction |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Success No. (%) | P value | Odds ratio | CI | No. (%) | P value | Odds ratio | CI | ||
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 87 | 64 (73.6) | 0.205 | 1.5 | [0.76–2.95] | 4 (4.6) | 0.166 | 0.45 | [0.12–1.56] |
| Hemophilus influenzae | 71 | 53 (74.6) | 0.411 | 1.32 | [0.65–2.67] | 6 (8.5) | 0.746 | 1.19 | [0.37–3.76] |
| Moraxella catarrhalis | 23 | 20 (86.9) | 0.049 | 0.3 | [0.07–1.13] | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 12 | 7 (58.3) | 0.091 | 2.7 | [0.71–10.07] | 4 (33.3) | 0.0005 | 7.75 | [1.67–34.63] |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 7 | 6 (85.7) | 0.618 | 0.58 | [0.03–5.07] | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Hemophilus parainfluenzae | 4 | 4 (100) | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Others | |||||||||
| Streptococcus pyogenes | 2 | 2 (100) | 0.1210 | N/A | N/A | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Serratia marcescens | 2 | 2 (100) | 0.1210 | N/A | N/A | 2 (100) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Streptococcus milleri | 1 | 1 (100) | 0.1210 | N/A | N/A | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 1 | 1 (100) | 0.1210 | N/A | N/A | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | N/A |