Table 2.
Isolated organism (total = 75) | N (%) | Early onset N (%) |
Late onset N (%) |
Test proportion | P value | Preterm N (%) |
Full term N (%) |
Test proportion | P value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gram-negative | |||||||||
Klebsiella species | 34(45.3) | 17(50) | 17(50) | 0.5 | 1 | 15(44.1) | 19(55.9) | 0.5 | 0.6 |
Enterobacter | 3(4) | 2(66.7) | 1(33.3) | 0.5 | 1 | 2(66.7) | 1(33.3) | 0.5 | 1 |
Pseudomonas | 4(5.3) | 0(0) | 4(100) | 0.5 | 0.12 | 2(50) | 2(50) | 0.5 | 1 |
Acinetobacter | 8(10.7) | 5(62.5) | 3(37.5) | 0.5 | o.72 | 3(37.5) | 5(62.5) | 0.5 | 0.72 |
Total | 49(65.3) | 24(49) | 25(51) | 0.5 | 1 | 22(44.9) | 27(55.1) | 0.5 | 0.56 |
Gram-positive | |||||||||
CoNS | 17(22.7) | 4(23.5) | 13(76.5) | 0.5 | 0.04* | 9(52.9) | 8(47.1) | 0.5 | 1 |
MRSA | 7(9.3) | 1(14.3) | 6(85.7) | 0.5 | 0.125 | 4(57.1) | 3(42.9) | 0.5 | 1 |
Strept. | 2(2.7) | 2(100) | 0(0) | 0.5 | 0.12 | 0(0) | 2(100) | 0.5 | 0.12 |
Total | 26(34.7) | 7(26.9) | 19(73.1) | 0.5 | 0.02* | 13(50) | 13(50) | 0.5 | 1 |
*P < 0.05 is significant.
CoNS: coagulase-negative staphylococci; MRSA: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Strept.: streptococci.
Data are presented as numbers (percentages).