Table 2.
Sites of infection and cultured organisms (excluding a single patient with positive Clostridium difficile PCR without prior infection)
| Site of infection | Number of infections | Culture negative | Culture positive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Species | Number according to species | |||
| Chest | 80 | 56 | 24 | Escherichia coli | 1 |
| Enterobacter species | 9 | ||||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 5 | ||||
| Corynebacterium | 1 | ||||
| Neisseria polyscchaerae | 1 | ||||
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 4 | ||||
| Lactobacillus minutus | 1 | ||||
| Klebsiella | 2 | ||||
| Urinary tract | 69 | 18 | 51 | Escherichia coli | 24 |
| Klebsiella species | 9 | ||||
| Enterococcus species | 10 | ||||
| Candida species | 2 | ||||
| Mixed growth | 2 | ||||
| Morganella morganii | 1 | ||||
| Actinobacter baumannii | 1 | ||||
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 1 | ||||
| Proteus mirabilis | 1 | ||||
| peritoneum (i.e., ascitic culture) | 28 | 18 | 10 | Escherichia coli | 1 |
| Klebsiella species | 2 | ||||
| Eggerthella lenta | 1 | ||||
| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | 1 | ||||
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 1 | ||||
| Enterobacter species | 3 | ||||
| Candida albicans | 1 | ||||
| Blood | 21 | 0 | 21 | Escherichia coli | 3 |
| Enterobacter species | 4 | ||||
| Corynebacterium | 1 | ||||
| Haemophilus influenzae | 1 | ||||
| Streptococcus species | 4 | ||||
| Klebsiella | 1 | ||||
| Staphylococcus species | 6 | ||||
| Actinobacter baumanii | 1 | ||||
| Total | 199 | 92 | 106 | ||