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. 2018 Mar 23;17:13. doi: 10.1186/s12941-018-0267-8

Table 5.

Directed antimicrobial agents stratified by type of infection

Directed antimicrobial therapy Number (%) of patients
Infection type
VABP (N = 31) Bacteremia (N = 22) cUTI/AP (N = 18) HABP (N = 16) SWI (N = 16) BTI (N = 9) DWI (N = 7) SBFI (N = 5) All (N = 124)
No treatment 2 (6.5%) 1 (4.5%) 1 (5.6%) 1 (6.3%) 3 (18.8%) 1 (11.1%) 1 (14.3%) 0 10 (8.1%)
No Gram-negative coverage 0 0 0 0 1 (6.3%) 0 1 (14.3%) 0 2 (1.6%)
Gram-negative therapy 29 (93.5%) 21 (95.5%) 17 (94.4%) 15 (93.8%) 12 (75.0%) 8 (88.9%) 5 (71.4%) 5 (100%) 112 (90.3%)
 Monotherapy 3 (9.7%) 1 (4.5%) 12 (66.7%) 5 (31.3%) 6 (37.5%) 2 (22.2%) 1 (14.3%) 1 (20.0%) 31 (25.0%)
 Dual therapy 13 (41.9%) 8 (36.4%) 5 (27.8%) 8 (50.0%) 6 (37.5%) 5 (55.6%) 3 (42.9%) 2 (40.0%) 50 (40.3%)
 Three drug combinations 10 (32.3%) 10 (45.5%) 0 2 (12.5%) 0 1 (11.1%) 1 (14.3%) 2 (40.0%) 26 (21.0%)
 Four and more drug combinations 3 (9.7%) 2 (9.1%) 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 (4.0%)
Number active agents
 No active agent 3 (9.7%) 3 (13.6%) 1 (5.6%) 2 (12.5%) 1 (6.3%) 0 1 (14.3%) 0 11 (8.9%)
 One active agent 16 (51.6%) 12 (54.5%) 15 (83.3%) 10 (62.5%) 8 (50.0%) 4 (44.4%) 3 (42.9%) 3 (60.0%) 71 (57.3%)
 Two active agents 9 (29.0%) 4 (18.2%) 1 (5.6%) 3 (18.8%) 3 (18.8%) 4 (44.4%) 1 (14.3%) 2 (40.0%) 27 (21.8%)
 Three active agents 1 (3.2%) 1 (4.5%) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 (1.6%)
 Four active agents 0 1 (4.5%) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 (0.8%)

AP acute pyelonephritis, BTI biliary tract infection, cUTI complicated urinary tract infection, DWI deep wound infection, HABP hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia, SBFI sterile body fluids infection, SWI superficial wound infection, VABP ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia