Table 5.
Frequency of the isolates by infection site.
| Isolates | n (%) of infection |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soft tissue n = 177 | pneumonia n = 14 | Blood stream n = 10 | UTI n = 223 | SSI n = 94 | |
| Proteus spp. | 32 (18.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 33 (14.8) | 13 (13.8) |
| P. aeruginosa | 28 (15.8) | 3 (21.4) | 1 (10.0) | 36 (16.1) | 12 (12.8) |
| S. aureus | 48 (27.1) | 1 (7.1) | 2 (20.0) | 6 (2.7) | 21 (22.3) |
| K. pneumonia | 21 (11.9) | 5 (35.7) | 1 (10.0) | 33 (14.8) | 5 (5.3) |
| E. coli | 46 (26.0) | 2 (14.3) | 3 (30.0) | 114 (51.1) | 42 (44.7) |
| C. freundii | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) |
| S. pyogenes | 0 (0.0) | 3 (21.4) | 2 (20.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| S. pneumonia | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (10.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.1) |
| Enterococcus spp. | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) |
SSI- Surgical Site Infection, UTI- Urinary Tract Infection.