Table 3.
Pathogens identified by culture among 100 patients admitted with fever to a tertiary care hospital in South India
|
Pathogen |
Blood |
Urine |
Bone marrow |
Sputum |
CSF |
Lymph node |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 21 | n = 24 | n = 1 | n = 13 | n = 2 | n = 2 | |
|
Gram negative |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Escherichia coli |
31 (14.3) |
16 (66.7) |
|
|
|
|
| Klebsiella spp. |
12 (4.8) |
1 (4.2) |
|
|
|
|
| S. typhi/paratyphi |
3 (14.3) |
|
1 (100) |
|
|
|
| Pseudomonas spp. |
|
1 (4.2) |
|
2 (15.4) |
|
|
| Acinetobact. anitratus |
|
|
|
1 (7.7) |
|
|
| Gram negative rods |
1 (4.8) |
1 (4.2) |
|
2 (15.4) |
|
|
|
Gram positive |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Staph. aureus |
23 (9.5) |
|
|
|
|
|
| MRSA + Enterobact. |
|
|
|
1 (7.7) |
|
|
| Enterococcus spp. |
14 (4.8) |
4 (16.7) |
|
|
|
|
| Strept. viridans |
15 (4.8) |
- |
|
|
|
|
| Gram positive cocci |
|
1 (4.2) |
|
|
|
|
| Other |
86 (38.1) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
M. tuberculosis |
|
|
|
6 (46.2) |
|
2 (100) |
|
Fungi |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Cryptococci |
1 (4.8) |
|
|
|
1 (50.0) |
|
| Fungi not specified | 2 (8.3) | 12 (7.7) | 12 (50.0) |
Data are given as number of positive samples with percentages in parentheses. Each patient may have had more than one positive sample.
Abbreviations:CSF cerebrospinal fluid, spp species, S. Salmonella, MRSA methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Strept. Streptococcus, Staph Staphylococcus, Enterobact. Enterobacteriaceae, M mycobacterium.
1Samples from three patients with urosepsis.
2Sepsis with undefined focus.
3Samples from two patients with endocarditis.
4Spleen abscess.
5Pulmonary infection and sepsis.
6Spores, 3; difteroides, 2; gram positive bacteria and difteroides, 1; micrococci, 1, staphylococcus spp, 1.