Table 2.

Median [Interquartile Range] of numbers of sputum specimens, total numbers of organisms and numbers of co-infecting organisms [per patient] in each group. Mean ± SD numbers of individual co-infecting organisms isolated per patient in each group.

Measurement	Patient Group
	BCC	PA	NI
No. of Patients	23	30	26
Total No. of Specimens / patient	24 [9.0–59.0]	19.5 [5.5–34.5]	0 [0–9.8]
Total No. of Organisms / patient †	32 [16.0–79.0]	24 [7.8–46.3]	0 [0–11.3]
No. of Co-infecting Organisms / patient ‡	15 [8.0–20.0]	3.5 [0.8–11.3]	0 [0–4.3]
P. aeruginosa co-infection	14.4 ± 19.7	-	0.1 ± 0.3
S. aureus co-infection	3.6 ± 4.8	2.0 ± 4.1	3.7 ± 7.5
H. influenza co-infection	1.8 ± 2.9	0.7 ± 1.6	1.1 ± 3.1
S. pneumonia co-infection	0.6 ± 1.2	0.2 ± 0.5	0.4 ± 1.0
S. maltophilia co-infection	0.9 ± 1.5	2.6 ± 6.6	1.7 ± 6.3
Other organism co-infection	1.4 ± 1.9	3.1 ± 5.9	1.7 ± 3.2

† Total number of different bacterial organisms isolated in that group of patients during the study period.

‡ Number different bacterial organisms isolated excluding those isolates for BCC or PA in those patients who are colonized with these bacteria.