Table 2.
Underlying diseases among patients with clinically relevant anaerobic bacteraemia (excluding P. acnes)
| Characteristics | No. of patients |
P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | ||
| Total patients | 19 | 18 | 10 | 28 | 19 | |
| Male/Female | 10/9 | 13/5 | 4/6 | 14/14 | 13/6 | |
| Age (mean±SD) | 57.58±26.4 | 60.3±18.2 | 49.2±11.3 | 66.6±8.3 | 66.6±9.7 | |
| Anti-anaerobe treatment | 8 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 7 | NS |
| Mortality | 3 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0.003 |
| Cardiovascular disease | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | NS |
| Diabetes (complicated) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | NS |
| Renal failure | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | NS |
| Gastrointestinal disorders | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0.003 |
| Pneumonia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0.001 |
| Malignancy | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0.002 |
| Neurological disease | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | NS |
| Sepsis | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0.003 |
| Multiple disorders | 9 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 7 | ≤0.001 |
| NS: not significant. | ||||||