Table 2.
Distribution of blood culture isolates across patients’ groups
| Microorganisms | Patients’ group (%) | Cancers | p value | Febrile neutropenia (n = 23) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haematologic | Non-haematol. (n = 39) | ||||||||
| Paeds. (n = 59) | Adults (n = 34) | p value | Leuk. (n = 35) | Lymp. (n = 15) | Myel. (n = 4) | ||||
| Gram negatives (n = 49) | a26 | a23 | 0.028 | a22 (62.8)a | a9 (60.0)a | a2 (50.0)a | a16 (41.0)a | 0.056 | a9 |
| Enterobacteriaceae (n = 32) | 16 | 16 | 0.051 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 0.182 | 6 |
| Escherichia coli (n = 8) | 2 | 6 | 0.018 | 5 | 0a | 1 | 2 | 0.310 | 1 |
| K. pneumoniae (n = 3) | 2 | 1 | 0.906 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.378 | 2 |
| Citrobacter species (n = 12) | 6 | 6 | 0.300 | 6 | 2 | 0a | 4 | 0.517 | 1 |
| Enterobacter species (n = 7) | 5 | 2 | 0.648 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0.959 | 2 |
| Providencia species (n = 1) | 1 | 0 | 0.455 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.393 | 0 |
| Salmonella typhimurium (n = 1) | 1 | 0 | 0.455 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.236 | 0 |
| Acinetobacter species (n = 7) | 5 | 2 | 0.648 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.456 | 2 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa (n = 10) | 5 | 5 | 0.350 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.137 | 1 |
| Gram positives (n = 40) | a31 | b9 | 0.014 | b10 (28.5)a | a6 (40.0)a | a2 (50.0)a | a21 (53.8)a | 0.048 | a12 |
| Enterococcus species (n = 2) | 2 | 0 | 0.278 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.093 | 1 |
| Staphylococcus aureus (n = 4) | 3 | 1 | 0.623 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.738 | 0 |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis (n = 28) | 21 | 7 | 0.128 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0.088 | 9 |
| Streptococcus species (n = 6) | 5 | 1 | 0.295 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.659 | 2 |
| Fungi (n = 4) | |||||||||
| Candida species | b2 | c2 | 0.568 | 2 (5.7)c | b0 | a0 | b2 (5.3) | 0.738 | b2 |
Numbers with differing superscripts within columns or differing subscripts within rows are significantly different at the p < 0.05
Paeds paediatric patients, Leuk. leukemia, Lymph. lymphoma, Myel myeloma, Non-haematol. non-haematologic malignancies (type not confirmed)