Table 1.

Eighteen months of retrospective bacterial analyses showing the most prevalent bacterial species for each sample

Source	Bacterial species most frequently isolated	Frequency of bacterial species	Percentage of bacterial species (%)
Blood	Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species	214	31.8
Blood-pediatric	Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species	157	38.2
Body fluid	Escherichia coli	183	39.3
Cerebral spinal fluid	Staphylococcus aureus	23	24.5
Ear culture	Staphylococcus aureus	79	24.5
Eye culture	Streptococcus pneumoniae	26	57.8
Nasal discharge	Group G Streptococcus	10	100.0
Nasal swab	Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species	11	100.0
Pus	Escherichia coli	73	47.4
Routine	Escherichia coli	36	46.2
Sputum	Klebsiella oxytoca	49	36.6
Stool	Salmonella group non paratyphi A/B	43	31.6
Throat	Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A)	22	35.5
Urethral discharge	Escherichia coli	8	100.0
Urine	Escherichia coli	7140	64.7
Wound	Staphylococcus aureus	565	36.0