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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2019 Aug 20;9(12):1430–1435. doi: 10.1002/alr.22414

Table 4.

Respiratory Microbiology

Bacterial Colonization (Sputum) All (n=23) CRS
(n=13)
Non-CRS
(n=10)
p-value
Chronic colonization (%) 73.9 69.2 80.0 0.66
Gram positive (%) 47.8 53.8 40.0 0.6802
Staphylococcus aureus (%) 34.8 30.8 40.0 0.685
Streptococcus pneumoniae (%) 13.0 23.1 0.0 0.2292
Gram negative (%) 69.6 53.8 90.0 0.0886
Haemophilus parainfluenzae (%) 47.8 38.5 60.0 0.4136
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (%) 34.8 30.8 40.0 0.685
P. aeruginosa – mucoid (%) 21.7 23.1 20.0 1
Escherichia coli (%) 13.0 15.4 10.0 1
Moraxella catarhalis (%) 8.7 7.7 10.0 1
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (%) 8.7 0.0 20.0 0.1779
Enterobacter cloacea (%) 8.7 7.7 10.0 1