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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2015 Oct 30;101(4):F329–F332. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-309210

Table 1.

Pathogen representation among infants with BSI.

Pathogens among
patients with BSI*
Pathogens among patients
with non-CoNS BSI + CRP
≥ 45mg/L**
Gram positive 28
CoNS 14
Enterococcus faecalis 6 2
Staphylococcus aureus 5 3
Group B Streptococcus 3 2
Gram negative 22
Enterobacter cloacae 5 2
Escherichia coli 5 2
Klebsiella spps 3 1
Serratia marcescens 3 1
Acinetobacterspps 2 1
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2 2
Delftiaacidovorans 1 1
Neiserria polysaccharea 1
Fungus 1
Candida albicans 1 1
*

-5 cases of polymicrobial infection (2 valid pathogens) were included;

**

-single patient had both E. fecalis and S. aureus CoNS-Coagulase negative Staphylococcus, BSI-Blood Stream Infection, CRP-C-reactive protein, spps-species