Table 2.

Presenting signs associated with single organism CRBSI, sorted by infecting organism.

Organism	Total, N1	Fever (≥ 37.8 C)	Rigors	Both fever and rigors	Neither fever nor rigors
S. aureus, n (%)	84	62 (78%)	49 (58%)	38 (48%)	8 (10%)
S. epidermidis, n (%)	94	31 (34%)	44 (47%)	19 (21%)	36 (40%)
Gram negative, n (%)	50	19 (40%)	34 (68%)	9 (19%)	4 (8%)
P value	-	<0.001	0.04	<0.001	<0.001

¹Temperature data were missing for 4 patients with S. aureus infections, 4 patients with S. epidermidis infections, and 2 patients with Gram negative infections. Thus, the denominators 80, 90, and 48, respectively, were used to calculate percentages for fever, both fever and rigors, and neither fever nor rigors. Lack of recorded rigors was treated as no rigors, and no data for rigors were missing. The denominators used to calculate percentage for rigors were thus 84, 94, and 50, respectively. One patient with S. aureus infection had chills with no temperature data. Two patients with S. epidermidis had chills with no temperature data. No patients with Gram negative infections and rigors had missing temperature data. Information for other Gram positive infections and Candida infections were omitted due to low patient numbers.