Table 3:

Case Review of Surveillance Cultures with High-Pathogenicity Organisms

Patient	Days Post-Transplant	Steroid dosea	Organism(s)	Hours from blood culture collection to positivity	Hours to 1st antibiotic(s) after notificationb	Blood culture repeated prior to antibiotics?	Admit	ICU	30-day Mortality
1a	53	0.8	Serratia marcescens	19.5	2.5	No	Yes	No	No
1b	78	0.4	Pseudomonas putida & Enterococcus faeciumc	14.5	3	Yes	Yes	No	No
2	265	0.34	Stenotrophomon as maltophilia	30	N/A (<24)	No	No	No	No
3	55	0.4	Klebsiella pneumoniae	42	3	Yes	Yes	No	No
4	56	1	Enterococcus faeciumd	19	2	No	No	No	No
5	85	0.6	MSSA	24	5	No	No	No	No

N/A: not available; MSSA: methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus

^aDose in milligrams per kilogram per day.

^bTime at which lab reported positive culture results

^cvancomycin resistant

^dvancomycin sensitive