Table 1.
Bacterial pathogens isolated from blood cultures in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2005 to 2014
| Organisms | Year | Total (14015) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 (1126) | 2006 (1132) | 2007 (1266) | 2008 (1566) | 2009 (1522) | 2010 (2003) | 2011 (1418) | 2012 (1391) | 2013 (1077) | 2014 (1514) | ||
| Salmonella | 566 a (50.3) b | 747 (66.0) | 707 (55.8) | 755 (48.2) | 593 (39.0) | 828 (41.3) | 592 (41.7) | 663 (47.7) | 474 (44.0) | 623 (41.1) | 6548 (46.7) |
| Salmonella Typhi | 457 (40.6) | 595 (52.6) | 571 (45.1) | 600 (38.3) | 483 (31.7) | 643 (32.1) | 451 (31.8) | 527 (37.9) | 355 (33.0) | 509 (33.6) | 5191 (37.0) |
| Salmonella Paratyphi A, B | 85 (7.5) | 133 (11.7) | 127 (10.0) | 146 (9.3) | 102 (6.7) | 179 (8.9) | 135 (9.5) | 129 (9.3) | 107 (9.9) | 110 (7.3) | 1253 (8.9) |
| Non-typhoidal Salmonella species | 24 (2.1) | 19 (1.7) | 9 (0.7) | 9 (0.6) | 8 (0.5) | 6 (0.3) | 6 (0.4) | 7 (0.5) | 12 (1.1) | 4 (0.3) | 104 (0.7) |
| Non-fermenter | 178 (15.8) | 196 (17.3) | 232 (18.3) | 290 (18.5) | 276 (18.1) | 338 (16.9) | 248 (17.5) | 232 (16.7) | 187 (17.4) | 307 (20.3) | 2484 (17.7) |
| Acinetobacter species | 98 (8.7) | 45 (4.0) | 101 (8.0) | 86 (5.5) | 82 (5.4) | 68 (3.4) | 55 (3.9) | 55 (4.0) | 56 (5.2) | 76 (5.0) | 722 (5.2) |
| Pseudomonas species | 80 (7.1) | 151 (13.3) | 131 (10.3) | 204 (13.0) | 194 (12.7) | 270 (13.5) | 193 (13.6) | 177 (12.7) | 131 (12.2) | 231 (15.3) | 1762 (12.6) |
| Gram Negative | 146 (13.0) | 66 (5.8) | 78 (6.2) | 85 (5.4) | 130 (8.5) | 138 (6.9) | 114 (8.0) | 128 (9.2) | 74 (6.9) | 116 (7.7) | 1075 (7.7) |
| Escherichia coli | 35 (3.1) | 29 (2.6) | 34 (2.7) | 46 (2.9) | 51 (3.4) | 64 (3.2) | 48 (3.4) | 45 (3.2) | 39 (3.6) | 36 (2.4) | 427 (3.0) |
| Klebsiella species | 33 (2.9) | 27 (2.4) | 31 (2.4) | 27 (1.7) | 37 (2.4) | 51 (2.5) | 35 (2.5) | 46 (3.3) | 29 (2.7) | 59 (3.9) | 375 (2.7) |
| Enterobacter species | 30 (2.7) | 8 (0.7) | 11 (0.9) | 8 (0.5) | 42 (2.8) | 17 (0.8) | 24 (1.7) | 27 (1.9) | 4 (0.4) | 17 (1.1) | 188 (1.3) |
| Serratia species | 48 (4.3) | 2 (0.2) | 2 (0.2) | 4 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (0.3) | 7 (0.5) | 10 (0.7) | 2 (0.2) | 4 (0.3) | 85 (0.6) |
| Gram Positive | 236 (21.0) | 123 (10.9) | 249 (19.7) | 436 (27.8) | 523 (34.4) | 699 (34.9) | 464 (32.7) | 368 (26.5) | 342 (31.8) | 468 (30.9) | 3908 (27.9) |
| Coagulase-negative Staphylococci | 147 (13.1) | 54 (4.8) | 179 (14.1) | 350 (22.2) | 416 (27.3) | 591 (29.5) | 364 (25.7) | 271 (19.5) | 248 (23.0) | 372 (24.6) | 2992 (21.3) |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 14 (1.2) | 10 (0.9) | 15 (1.2) | 23 (1.5) | 26 (1.7) | 30 (1.5) | 25 (1.8) | 23 (1.7) | 23 (2.1) | 30 (2.0) | 219 (1.6) |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 49 (4.4) | 32 (2.8) | 23 (1.8) | 23 (1.5) | 25 (1.6) | 25 (1.2) | 29 (2.0) | 23 (1.7) | 21 (1.9) | 26 (1.7) | 276 (2.0) |
| Streptococcus species | 21 (1.9) | 22 (1.9) | 17 (1.3) | 23 (1.5) | 30 (2.0) | 27 (1.3) | 29 (2.0) | 29 (2.1) | 35 (3.2) | 23 (1.5) | 256 (1.8) |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 5 (0.4) | 5 (0.4) | 15 (1.2) | 17 (1.1) | 26 (1.7) | 26 (1.3) | 17 (1.2) | 22 (1.6) | 15 (1.4) | 17 (1.1) | 165 (1.2) |
aValues in parentheses indicate the number of isolates found in each year; bValues in parentheses indicate the percentage of isolates found in each year
The bolded data indicates the total number and percentage of that group