Table 1.
Demographics and microbiology of patients requesting phage therapy at the Queen Astrid military hospital (n = 260).
| Infection Types | LRTI | UTI | SSTI | ENTI | BoneI | OPI | AbdI | ND | Other | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | |||||||||||
| Number of requesters | 59 | 79 | 21 | 22 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 28 | 260 | |
| Age | ≤14 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| 15–29 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 30–59 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 37 | |
| ≥60 | 21 | 26 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 81 | |
| ND | 30 | 38 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 128 | |
| Gender | Male | 23 | 33 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 134 |
| Female | 36 | 46 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 126 | |
| Countries | The Netherlands | 38 | 69 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 21 | 174 |
| Belgium | 9 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 50 | |
| France | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 19 | ||||
| Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
| Luxembourg | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Italy | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Spain | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| United States | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Israel | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Unknown | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Bacterial pathogens | |||||||||||
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 36 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 70 | ||
| Escherichia coli | 3 | 29 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 44 | ||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 31 | |||
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 24 | |||||
| Enterococcus faecalis | 12 | 1 | 4 | 17 | |||||||
| Proteus mirabilis | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||||||
| Enterobacter cloacae | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| Mycobacterium avium | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Streptococcus pyogenes | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
| Staphylococcus dysgalactiae | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Serratia marcescens | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Staphylococcus capitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Staphylococcus warneri | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Borrelia burgdorferi | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Burkholderia cenocepacia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Burkholderia multivorans | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Enterobacter aerogenes | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Granulicatella adiacens | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Haemophilus influenzae | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Morganella morganii | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Moraxella catarrhalis | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Cutibacterium acnes | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Yersinia enterocolitica | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Coxiella burnetii | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Clostridium hathewayi | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Helicobacter pylori | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Corynebacterium amycolatum | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| ND | 8 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 62 | |
| Total | 75 | 101 | 25 | 27 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 29 | 311 | |
| Polymicrobial (caused by a combination of bacteria) | 10 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 37 | ||||
AbdI, abdominal infection; BoneI, bone infection; ENTI, ear-nose-throat infection; LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection; ND, no data; OPI, orthopedic prosthesis infection; SSTI, skin and soft tissue infection; UTI, urinary tract infection.