Table 2.

Top 10 Most Frequent Blood Culture Pathogens in Patients with Community-Onset vs Hospital-Onset Sepsis

Rank	Community-Onset Sepsis (n=12951)	Hospital-Onset Sepsis (n=2,163)
1	Escherichia – 2,876 (22.2%)	Staphylococcus aureus - 514 (23.8%)
2	Staphylococcus aureus - 2,592 (20.0%)	Enterococcus - 243 (11.2%)
3	Streptococcus – 2,283 (17.6%)	Candida - 240 (11.1%)
4	Klebsiella – 1,090 (8.4%)	Escherichia - 236 (10.9%)
5	Enterococcus – 806 (6.2%)	Klebsiella - 220 (10.2%)
6	Candida - 566 (4.4%)	Streptococcus - 160 (7.4%)
7	Proteus - 476 (3.7%)	Pseudomonas – 133 (6.1%)
8	Pseudomonas – 454 (3.6%)	Enterobacter – 73 (3.4%)
9	Enterobacter – 290 (2.2%)	Acinetobacter – 43 (2.0%)
10	Serratia – 139 (1.1%)	Bacteroides – 36 (1.7%)

For each hospitalization, only the first positive blood culture was counted.