Table 2.
Distribution of pathogens based on infection types.
| Infection type | MEN n (%) |
UTI n (%) |
PNEU n (%) |
SSI n (%) |
BSI n (%) |
Total n (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culture result | No growth | 26 (21.8) | 2 (3.3) | 16 (5.3) | 6 (2.8) | 1 (1.5) | 51 (6.7) |
| Acinetobacter | 35 (29.4) | 8 (13.3) | 94 (31.3) | 61 (28.4) | 11 (16.4) | 209 (27.5) | |
| Staphylococcus | 48 (40.3) | 22 (36.7) | 83 (27.7) | 89 (41.4) | 44 (65.7) | 286 (37.5) | |
| Enterobacter | 2 (1.7) | 4 (6.7) | 23 (7.7) | 18 (8.4) | 1 (1.4) | 48 (6.3) | |
| P. aeruginosa | 1 (0.9) | 2 (3.3) | 34 (11.3) | 12 (5.5) | 6 (9.0) | 55 (7.2) | |
| Yeast | 7 (5.9) | 21 (35) | 36 (12.0) | 25 (11.6) | 2 (3.0) | 91 (12.0) | |
| Gram-negative bacillus | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.7) | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.4) | |
| Streptococcus | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 13 (4.3) | 3 (1.4) | 2 (3.0) | 18 (2.4) | |
| Total n (%) | 119 (100.0) | 60 (100.0) | 300 (100.0) | 215 (100.0) | 67 (100.0) | 761 (100.0) | |
Abbreviations: MEN, meningitis; UTI, urinary tract infection; PNEU, pneumonia; SSI, surgical site infection; BSI, blood stream infection (p < 0.001).