. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 10.

Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiology. 2009 May;110(5):1086–1091. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181a1081d

Table 3.

Pathogens Isolated from 111 Patients^* with Severe Pneumonia

Pathogen Isolated	Number of Patients	Mortality, n (%)
Candida sp.	23	5 (21.7%)
Staphylococcus epidermadis	16	3 (18.8%)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	12	3 (25.0%)
Staphylococcus aureus	12	3 (25.0%)
Enterococcus sp.	12	5 (41.7%)
Klebsiella sp.	11	2 (18.2%)
Escherichia coli	6	2 (33.3%)
Yeast, other	6	2 (33.3%)
Other	34	5 (15%)
No organisms isolated	43	16 (37.2%)

Of the 111 patients, 39 had more than one organism isolated, and 18 patients had three or more organisms isolated.