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. 2019 Feb 18;100(4):943–951. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0394

Table 2.

Antibiotic use before blood draw among hospitalized bacteremia cases with extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) and non-ESBL production for Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, Nakhon Phanom and Sa Kaeo provinces, Thailand, 2008–2014

Antibiotic use before blood draw E. coli K. pneumoniae
ESBL, N = 746 Non-ESBL, N = 2,069 P-value* ESBL, N = 237 Non-ESBL, N = 661 P-value*
n % N % n % n %
No preculture antibiotic use 553 74.1 1,947 94.1 Ref 164 69.2 608 92.0 Ref
Preculture antibiotic use 193 25.9 122 5.9 < 0.01 73 30.8 53 8.0 < 0.01
 β-Lactam (narrow spectrum) 7 3.6 5 4.1 < 0.01 4 5.5 6 11.3 0.15
 β-Lactam (extended spectrum) 13 6.7 19 15.6 0.02 12 16.4 11 20.8 < 0.01
 Cephalosporins 138 71.5 39 32.0 < 0.01 42 57.5 9 17.0 < 0.01
 Aminoglycosides 7 3.6 8 6.6 0.02 10 13.7 3 5.7 < 0.01
 Carbapenems 3 1.6 1 0.8 0.01 0 0 1 1.9 0.06
 Fluoroquinolones 19 9.8 17 13.9 < 0.01 11 15.1 5 9.4 < 0.01
 Macrolides 17 8.8 9 7.4 < 0.01 6 8.2 5 9.4 0.01
 Nitromidazole 29 15.0 13 10.7 < 0.01 6 8.2 2 3.8 < 0.01
 Combination (received > 1 antibiotic) 67 34.7 23 18.9 < 0.01 7 9.6 31 58.5 < 0.01
 Others† 11 5.7 22 18.0 0.14 7 9.6 12 22.6 0.1

* P-values on chi-squared tests comparing no pre-culture antibiotic use vs each class of antibiotics.

† Others: Amphotericin, sulperazone, augmentin, bactrim, and cotrimoxazole.