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. 2017 Mar 3;215(8):1312–1320. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jix114

Table 3.

Species of Hospital-Onset Pathogenic Bacterial Isolates Recovered on Culture Among 105 Patients, by Clinical Specimen Cultured

Organism Overall (n = 140) Blood (n = 47) CSF (n = 1) Urine (n = 26) Respiratory (n = 49) Other (n = 17)
Gram-negative rods
Escherichia coli 32 (23) 9 (19) 15 (58) 4 (8) 4 (23)
Acinetobacter species 26 (19) 14 (30) 1 (100) 10 (20) 1 (6)
Klebsiella species 20 (14) 3 (6) 1 (4) 15 (31) 1 (6)
Pseudomonas species 18 (13) 6 (13) 2 (8) 7 (14) 3 (18)
Citrobacter 13 (9) 3 (6) 7 (27) 3 (6)
Enterobacter 6 (4) 1 (2) 5 (10)
Unspecified 6 (4) 2 (4) 1 (4) 3 (6)
Gram-positive cocci
Staphylococcus aureus 8 (6) 5 (11) 1 (2) 2 (12)
Enterococcus species 5 (4) 3 (6) 2 (12)
Streptococcus pneumoniae 1 (1) 1 (2)
Streptococcus species (other) 5 (4) 1 (2) 4 (23)

Data are no. (%) of clinical cultures.

Abbreviation: CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.

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