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 |