Table 2.
Discriminative prevalence of isolated organism.
| Type of organism | Urine sample (n = 835) |
Sputum sample (n = 264) |
|---|---|---|
| Acinetobacter | 5 (0.5%) | 71 (26.8%) |
| Citrobacter | 10 (1.1%) | 4 (1.5%) |
| E. coli | 521 (62.3%) | 14 (5.3%) |
| E. coli inactive | 37 (4.4%) | 1 (0.4%) |
| Enterobacter | 23 (2.7%) | 11 (4.1%) |
| Enterococcus | 59 (7%) | 2 (0.7%) |
| Klebsiella | 70 (8.3%) | 11 (4.1%) |
| Proteus | 6 (0.7%) | 0 (0) |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 17 (2%) | 66 (25%) |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 12 (1.4%) | 55 (20.8%) |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 29 (3.4%) | 16 (6%) |
| Staphylococcus haemolyticus | 11 (1.3%) | 5 (1.8%) |
| Staphylococcus saprophyticus | 2 (0.2%) | 1 (0.4%) |
| Streptococcus group A | 0 (0) | 2 (0.7%) |
| Streptococcus group D | 0 (0) | 1 (0.4%) |
| Streptococcus saprophyticus | 33 (3.9%) | 0 (0) |