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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Oct 6;71(2):211–216. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.07.488

Table 1.

Bacteremia pathogens and concurrent bacterial infections by age

Bacteremia1 Concurrent UTI2 Concurrent bacterial meningitis2
≤ 28 days > 28 days ≤ 28 days > 28 days ≤ 28 days > 28 days
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
N 47 (56.0) 37 (44.0) 18 (38.3) 18 (48.6) 9 (19.1) 2 (5.4)
Bacteremia organisms
Escherichia coli 16 (19.0) 17 (20.2) 14 (87.5) 16 (94.1) 1 (6.3) 0 (0)
Group B streptococcus 15 (17.9) 5 (6.0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 5 (33.3) 1 (20.0)
Staphyloccus aureus 5 (6.0) 6 (7.1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Enterobacter cloacae 2 (2.4) 3 (3.6) 1 (50.0) 2 (66.7) 1 (50.0) 0 (0)
Klebsiella pneumoniae 2 (2.4) 0 (0) 1 (50.0) 0 (0) 1 (50.0) 0 (0)
Enterococcus species 1 (1.2) 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Neisseria meningitidis 0 (0) 2 (2.4) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (50.0)
Moraxella species 0 (0) 2 (2.4) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Listeria monocytogenes 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Citrobacter freundii 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Salmonella species 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Flavobacterium 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Lactose fermenting negative bacilli 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 1 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Streptococcus pneumoniae 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (100) 0 (0)
Pseudomonas 0 (0) 1 (1.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
1

The percentages in this column are based on the 84 total patients with bacteremia

2

The percentages in this column are based on the total number of patients with the corresponding bacteremia organism in the matching age group.