Table I.
London | Midland and East of England | North of England | South of England | England (total) | |||||||
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No. | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
All SSI isolates | MSSA | 25 | 20.2 | 88 | 27.2 | 87 | 26.9 | 91 | 29.2 | 291 | 26.9 |
MRSA | 3 | 2.4 | 24 | 7.4 | 8 | 2.5 | 10 | 3.2 | 45 | 4.2 | |
CoNS | 39 | 31.5 | 73 | 22.5 | 85 | 26.3 | 79 | 25.3 | 276 | 25.5 | |
Enterobacteriaceae | 20 | 16.1 | 52 | 16.0 | 58 | 18.0 | 39 | 12.5 | 169 | 15.6 | |
Other bacteria* | 10 | 8.1 | 35 | 10.8 | 26 | 8.0 | 40 | 12.8 | 111 | 10.2 | |
Enterococcus spp. | 11 | 8.9 | 20 | 6.2 | 31 | 9.6 | 17 | 5.4 | 79 | 7.3 | |
Streptococcus spp. | 5 | 4.0 | 24 | 7.4 | 17 | 5.3 | 21 | 6.7 | 67 | 6.2 | |
Pseudomonas spp. | 11 | 8.9 | 6 | 1.9 | 11 | 3.4 | 14 | 4.5 | 42 | 3.9 | |
Fungi | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.3 | |
Total | 124 | 100 | 324 | 100 | 323 | 100 | 312 | 100 | 1,083 | 100 | |
Deep or organ-space SSI isolates | CoNS* | 23 | 31.5 | 51 | 24.6 | 71 | 30.5 | 64 | 27.2 | 209 | 27.9 |
MSSA | 18 | 24.7 | 50 | 24.2 | 62 | 26.6 | 54 | 23.0 | 184 | 24.6 | |
MRSA | 1 | 1.4 | 13 | 6.3 | 3 | 1.3 | 8 | 3.4 | 25 | 3.3 | |
Enterobacteriaceae | 12 | 16.4 | 34 | 16.4 | 40 | 17.2 | 35 | 14.9 | 121 | 16.2 | |
Other bacteria† | 5 | 6.8 | 20 | 9.7 | 19 | 8.2 | 32 | 13.6 | 76 | 10.2 | |
Enterococcus spp. | 5 | 6.8 | 18 | 8.7 | 18 | 7.7 | 13 | 5.5 | 54 | 7.2 | |
Streptococcus spp. | 3 | 4.1 | 18 | 8.7 | 12 | 5.2 | 19 | 8.1 | 52 | 7.0 | |
Pseudomonas spp. | 6 | 8.2 | 2 | 1.0 | 8 | 3.4 | 9 | 3.8 | 25 | 3.3 | |
Fungi | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.3 | |
Total | 73 | 100 | 207 | 100 | 233 | 100 | 235 | 100 | 748 | 100 | |
* The majority in this group comprised diptheroids/Corynebacterium spp. (40%) followed by unidentified organisms (31%) † The majority in this group comprised diptheroids/Corynebacterium spp. (42%) followed by unidentified organisms (28%) MSSA, met(h)icillin-sensitive S. aureus; MRSA, met(h)icillin-resistant S. aureus; CoNs,coagulase-negative staphylococci