Table 3.

Documented infections in 225 patients in Edmonton, Canada, who received prophylactic antibiotics (30 infections, 21 culture positive).

	Pneumonia (N = 13)	Urinary tract infection (N = 6)	SBP (N = 6)	Spontaneous bacteremia (N = 5)
Culture-positive infection	N = 7 (54%)	N = 6 (100%)	N = 3 (50%)	N = 5 (100%)
Gram-negative organisms
Escherichia coli	1 (0 QR, 0 CR)	1 (1 QR, 1 CR)	1 (0 QR, 0 CR)	1 (0 QR, 0 CR)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa				1 (0 QR, 1 CR)
Gram-positive organisms
Enterococcus spp (all Vancomycin sensitive)		5 (5 QR, 5 CR)	1 (1 QR, 1 CR)	2 (2QR, 2 CR)
Streptococcus pneumoniae	1 (1 QR, 1 CR)
Viridans group Streptococcus				1 (1 QR, 0 CR)
Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus	4 (4 QR, 0 CR)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus			1 (1 QR, 1 CR)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae	1 (1 QR, 0 CR)
Totals	6 QR (86%) 1CR (14%)	6 QR (100%) 6 CR (100%)	2 QR (66%) 2 CR (66%)	3 QR (60%) 3 CR (60%)

SBP: spontaneous bacterial peritonitis; CR: third-generation cephalosporin resistant; QR: quinolone resistant.