Table 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of children aged ⩽15 years hospitalized with non-healthcare-associated (non-HCA)^* Acinetobacter bacteraemia, Nakhon Phanom and Sa Kaeo provinces, Thailand, May 2005–December 2008

Patient	Age (years)	Discharge diagnosis	Acinetobacter species	Maximum temp. (°C)†	WBC‡ at admission	Antibiotic Therapy	Susceptibility of isolate to antibiotic used for treatment	Outcome
1	<1	Burn and surgical debridement§	Acb complex	41·0	14 520	Cloxacillin	Resistant	Survived
2	<1	Pneumonia	Acb complex	39·1	15 100	Ampicillin	Resistant	Survived
3	<1	Pneumonia	Acb complex	38·9	–	Amoxicillin	Susceptible to amoxicilin	Survived
						Ceftriaxone	Susceptible to cefotaxime
4	1–<5	Pneumonia	Acb complex	40·0	–	Ampicillin	Resistant	Survived
						Ceftriaxone	Resistant to cefotaxime
5	1–<5	Diarrhoea	Non-Acb complex	38·0	–	None noted	–	Survived
6	1–<5	Pneumonia	Non-Acb complex	38·4	–	Amoxicillin/clavulanate	Susceptible to amoxicillin	Survived
						Ampicillin	Susceptible to ampicillin
7	1–<5	Pneumonia	Non-Acb complex	38·8	20 700	Amoxicillin	Susceptible to amoxicillin	Survived
						Ceftriaxone	Susceptible to cefotaxime
8	1–<5	Pneumonitis	Acb complex	39·9	11 100	Amoxicillin	Susceptibility unknown	Survived
						Ceftriaxone
9	1–<5	Fever	Non-Acb complex	40·0	27 090	Amoxicillin	Susceptible to amoxicillin	Survived
						Ceftazadime	Ceftazadime unknown
						Ceftriaxone	Susceptible to cefotaxime
10	5–15	Acute bronchitis	Non-Acb complex	40·3	2100	Ampicillin	Resistant to ampicillin	Survived
						Cephalexin	Susceptibility to cephalexin unknown
11	5–15	Septicaemia	Acb complex	39·6	6100	Ampicillin	Resistant to ampicillin	Survived
						Ciprofloxacin	Ciprofloxacin unknown
						Gentamicin	Susceptible to gentamicin
12	5–15	Fever	Non-Acb complex	39·0	8400	None noted	–	Survived
13	5–15	Viral infection	Acb complex	38·1	3400	None noted	–	Survived
14	5–15	Cellulitis	Non-Acb complex	39·9	18 000	Ceftazidime	Resistant to cefotaxime	Survived
						Ceftriaxone	Ceftriaxone unknown
						Clindamycin	Clindamycin unknown
						Roxithromycin	Roxithromycin unknown
						Co-trimoxazole	Resistant to trimethoprim
15	5–15	Acute pharyngitis	Non-Acb complex	38·7	6600	Amoxicillin	Susceptible	Survived

Acb, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus–baumannii.

^*Non-HCA indicates that the blood culture was collected <3 days after admission and the patient had no known HCA risk factors.

^†Maximum temperature during first 24 h of admission.

^‡White blood cell count/mm³.

^§This child was hospitalized with second-degree scald burn of right forearm, the following day he developed high fever and had a seizure during surgical debridement.