Table 1.

Frequency of microorganisms isolated in bile and blood

	Bile	Blood
	(n = 1066)	(n = 78)
Enteroccus spp.	31.0%	20.5%
Enterobacterales	29.5%	56.4%
E.coli	13.2%	32.1%
Klebsiella spp.	8.0%	14.1%
Enterobacter spp.	2.9%	5.1%
Citrobacter spp.	2.4%	2.6%
Other enterobacterales	3.0%	2.6%
Candida spp.	16.9%	3.8%
Streptococcus spp.	6.6%	1.3%
Anaerobes	4.9%	1.3%
CoNS	3.3%	3.8%
P. aeruginosa	2.3%	7.7%
Other	5.5%	6.4%

n, number of isolates from bile and blood, respectively

CoNS, Coagulase-negative staphylococci