Table 3.

Culture Results

Culture Data	No. (%) of Patients or Organisms*
Total no. of patients†	100
With negative culture results	35 (35)
With positive culture result	64 (64)
Sample type for positive culture results (n = 64 patients)
Blood (central or peripheral)	62 (97)
Urine	18 (28)
Sputum	8 (12)
Wound	5 (8)
Polymicrobial	3 (5)
Total no. of organisms isolated‡	68
Gram-positive organisms	26 (38)
Enterococcus	3 (4)
Streptococcus pneumoniae	5 (7)
MSSA	5 (7)
MRSA	2 (3)
Streptococcus viridans	2 (3)
Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus	8 (12)
Other	1 (1)
Gram-negative organisms	38 (56)
Escherichia coli	11 (16)
Klebsiella	9 (13)
Pseudomonas	8 (12)
Citrobacter	1 (1)
Acinetobacter	1 (1)
Proteus	3 (4)
Morganella	1 (1)
Other	4 (6)
Anaerobic organisms	4 (6)
Clostridium difficile	1 (1)
Bacteroides fragilis	1 (1)
Other	2 (3)

MRSA = methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MSSA = methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus.

^*Except where indicated otherwise.

^†For one patient, no samples were drawn for culture.

^‡Percentages of organisms were calculated using total number of organisms isolated as the denominator.