Table 4.

Yield of microbiological specimen

Diagnosis*	Test findings	Blood culture %	Urine culture %	SST culture1%	Respiratory culture %	RP-PCR2 %	UPAg3 %
Sepsis	Causative	20	36	63	29	18	8
	Non-causative	5	16	25	58
	Negative	75	48	13	13	82	92
	Total	100 (n = 303)	100 (n = 239)	100 (n = 24)	100 (n = 52)	100 (n = 106)	100 (n = 111)
UTI	Causative	17	54	33	0	0	0
	Non-causative	4	17	67	80
	Negative	79	28	0	20	100	100
	Total	100 (n = 113)	100 (n = 179)	100 (n = 3)	100 (n = 15)	100 (n = 27)	100 (n = 21)
SSTI	Causative	4	30	70	40	0	0
	Non-causative	4	15	23	60
	Negative	92	55	7	0	100	100
	Total	100 (n = 163)	100 (n = 47)	100 (n = 107)	100 (n = 5)	100 (n = 11)	100 (n = 4)
LRTI	Causative	4	16	67	33	17	9
	Non-causative	2	20	22	52
	Negative	94	63	11	15	83	91
	Total	100 (n = 470)	100 (n = 298)	100 (n = 9)	100 (n = 185)	100 (n = 240)	100 (n = 196)
AECOPD	Causative	1	17	43	41	8	10
	Non-causative	4	16	43	45
	Negative	94	67	14	14	92	90
	Total	100 (n = 269)	100 (n = 166)	100 (n = 7)	100 (n = 161)	100 (n = 167)	100 (n = 123)
Total	Causative	8	29	67	34	13	8
	Non-causative	4	18	25	51
	Negative	88	53	8	14	87	92
	Total	100 (n = 1318)	100 (n = 929)	100 (n = 150)	100 n = (418)	100 (n = 551)	100 (n = 455)

*AECOPD: acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; LRTI: lower respiratory infection; SSTI: skin and soft tissue infection; UTI: urinary tract infection

¹SST culture: wound, pus, breastmilk or tissue culture; ²RP-PCR: Respiratory panel polymerase chain reaction test for viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens; ³UPAg: Urinary pneumococcal antigen tests