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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Dec;33(12):e140–e145. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000812

Table 2. List of Pathogens from Central Blood Cultures.

Central blood culture pathogens (N = 501) N %
  *denotes Enteric organisms
 *Klebsiella species 99 19.8
 Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus 89 17.8
 *Escherichia coli 51 10.2
 *Enterococcus faecalis 46 9.2
Candida species 41 8.2
 Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus 37 7.4
 *Enterobacter species 35 7.0
 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus 12 2.4
 *Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci 11 2.2
 Alpha-hemolytic Streptococcus 10 2.0
 *Bacillus species non-anthracis 10 2.0
 *Lactobacillus species 9 1.8
 *Citrobacter species 9 1.8
 *Serratia marcescens 8 1.6
 *Acinetobacter species 8 1.6
 *Proteus mirabilis 6 1.2
Streptococcus pneumoniae 4 0.8
Streptococcus, Non-hemolytic 3 0.6
 *Leuconostoc species 3 0.6
 *Pseudomonas 2 0.6
 Group B Streptococcus 2 0.6
 *Aeromonas hydrophila 1 0.2
 *Diphtheroids 1 0.2
 *Kluyvera ascorbata 1 0.2
Neisseria species not Neisseria meningitides 1 0.2
 *Pantoea (Enterobacter) agglomerans 1 0.2
Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia 1 0.2