Table 2. Bacterial pathogens isolated from intubated patients in ICU patients at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
| Pathogen | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Mean | OR* | P value* | 95 % CI |
| [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | ||||
| Acinetobacter spp. | 6 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 32 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 19 | 35 | 19 | 1.066 | 0.022 | 1.01–1.12 |
| (35.3) | (27.9) | (23.2) | (25.3) | (27.1) | (38.9) | (26.7) | (27.1) | (23.1) | (34.6) | (45.5) | (30.4) | ||||
| K. pneumoniae | 5 | 13 | 24 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 0.873 | <0.001 | 0.83–0.94 |
| (29.4) | (21.3) | (29.3) | (22.8) | (16.1) | (8.3) | (10.0) | (18.6) | (7.7) | (12.7) | (10.4) | (17.0) | ||||
| P. aeruginosa | 4 | 20 | 22 | 26 | 36 | 11 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 0.917 | 0.004 | 0.86–0.97 |
| (23.5) | (32.8) | (26.8) | (32.9) | (30.5) | (30.6) | (35.0) | (22.0) | (23.1) | (21.8) | (11.7) | (26.4) | ||||
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.842 | 0.028 | 0.72–0.98 |
| (0.0) | (8.2) | (9.8) | (1.3) | (2.5) | (2.8) | (0.0) | (3.4) | (3.9) | (0.0) | (2.6) | (3.1) | ||||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1.117 | 0.021 | 1.02–1.23 |
| (11.8) | (4.9) | (3.7) | (2.5) | (6.8) | (5.6) | (15.0) | (6.8) | (9.6) | (16.6) | (7.8) | (8.3) | ||||
| Other Gram-negative bacteria† | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 17 | 11 | 1.207 | <0.001 | 1.18–1.23 |
| (0.0) | (4.8) | (7.2) | (12) | (17) | (13.9) | (13.3) | (22.1) | (32.9) | (14.5) | (22.1) | (14.8) |
Determined by logistic regression.
Other Gram-negative bacteria include Proteus spp., Alcaligenes spp., Citrobacter spp., Providencia spp., Serratia spp., Escherichia coli, Enterobacter spp., Burkholderia spp., Chryseobacterium sp., Haemophilus spp. and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.