Table 4.

Microbiological features of positive blood cultures in patients with and without PLT transfusion

Pathogens	Patients with positive blood culture N = 195	Patients with positive blood culture who had PLT transfusion N = 108	Patients with positive blood culture without PLT transfusion N = 87	P value
Enterobactericeae	54 (27.7%)	28 (26%)	26 (29%)	0.54
Enterococcus	38 (19.5%)	27 (25%)	11 (13%)	0.03
Staphylococcus aureus	20 (10.3%)	9 (8.3%)	11 (12.6%)	<0.01
CNS	39 (20%)	21 (19.4%)	18 (20.7%)	0.83
Candida	36 (18.5%)	26 (24.1%)	10 (11.5%)	0.02
Non-fermentive GNB	16 (8.2%)	7 (6.5%)	9 (10.3%)	0.33
Other	2 (1%)	1 (0.9%)	1 (1.2%)	0.88
BC with >1 microorganism	14 (7.2%)	9 (8.3%)	5 (5.8%)	0.49

PLT Platelets, CNS coagulase negative Staphylococcus, GNB Gram-negative Bacilli, BC blood culture. P values comparing PLT transfusion group to the no-PLT transfusion group