Table 1.
Clinical isolates obtained from patients admitted to the intensive care units of seven main teaching hospitals in Taiwan in 2016
| Sources | Isolates | Isolates (total 758), n (%) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. coli (n=121) | K. pneumoniae (n=137) | P. aeruginosa (n=128) | A. baumannii complex (n=138) | C. freundii (n=10) | E. cloacae (n=51) | S. marcescens (n=42) | P. mirabilis (n=38) | M. morganii (n=13) | B. cepacia (n=19) | S. maltophilia (n=61) | |||
| Hospital (location within Taiwan) | |||||||||||||
| NTUH (N) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 139 (18.3) | |
| TMWFH (N) | 1 | 18 | 8 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 57 (7.5) | |
| VGH Taichung (M) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 106 (14.0) | |
| CMMC (S) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 125 (16.5) | |
| NCKUH (S) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 111 (14.6) | |
| KMUH (S) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 108 (14.2) | |
| VGH Kaohsiung (S) | 20 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 112 (14.8) | |
| Clinical sources | |||||||||||||
| Sputum/endotracheal aspirates | 40 | 93 | 99 | 115 | 5 | 34 | 29 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 51 | 495 (65.3) | |
| Blood | 17 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 93 (12.3) | |
| Urine | 44 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | — | 1 | 90 (11.9) | |
| Pus/wound | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 4 | — | — | 42 (5.5) | |
| Ascites | 7 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 13 (1.7) | |
| Abscess fluids | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 7 (0.9) | |
| Bile | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 (0.5) | |
| Cerebrospinal fluid | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 (0.1) | |
| Othersa | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | 13 (1.7) | |
Note:
Vaginal discharges (n=7), intravenous catheters (n=3), and tissue biopsy (n=3).
Abbreviations: CMMC, Chi Mei Medical Center; KMUH, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital; M, middle; N, Northern; NCKUH, National Cheng Kung University Hospital; NTUH, National Taiwan University Hospital; S, Southern; TMWFH, Taipei Municipal Wan-Fang Hospital; VGH, Veterans General Hospital; E. coli; Escherichia coli; K. pneumoniae; Klebsiella pneumoniae; P. aeruginosa; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; A. baumannii; Acinetobacter baumannii; C. freundii; Citrobacter freundii; E. cloacae; Enterobacter cloacae; S. marcescens, Serratia marcescens; P. mirabilis, Proteus mirabilis; M. morganii; Morganella morganii; B. cepacia, Burkholderia cepacia; S. maltophilia; Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.