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. 2015 Jun 19;21(9):672–679. doi: 10.1016/j.jiac.2015.06.003

Table 1.

Etiologic distribution of community acquired pneumonia.

Cases, no. Proportion (%) among all CAP cases Proportion (%) among microbiologically identified cases
Streptococcus pneumoniae 276 12.42 36.7
Staphylococcus aureus 109 4.90 14.5
Haemophilus influenzae 105 4.72 14
Klebsiella pneumoniae 105 4.72 14
Escherichia coli 17 0.76 2.26
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 83 3.73 11
Enterobacter spp. 18 0.81 2.39
Moraxella catarrhalis 24 1.08 3.19
Other Streptococcus spp. 9 0.40 1.2
Other Klebsiella spp. 6 0.27 0.8
Other Pseudomonas spp. 5 0.22 0.66
Acinetobacter spp. 7 0.31 0.93
Serratia marcescens 6 0.27 0.8
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia 4 0.18 0.53
Mycoplasma pneumoniae 5 0.22 0.66
Other bacteriaa 12 0.54 1.6
Respiratory virusesb 179 8.05 23.8
Undetermined 1469 66.14
Totalc 2221 100% 100%

CAP, Community-acquired pneumonia.

a

Other bacteria (no. of cases): Aeromonas caviae (2), Pantoea agglomerans (1), Burkholderia cepacia (1), Morganella morganii (2), CMV (2), Sphingomonas paucimobilis (1), Alcaligenes xylosoxidans ssp. denitrificans (1), Raoultella planticola (1), Citrobacter freundii (1).

b

Respiratory viruses (no. of cases): Rhinovirus (37), influenza A/B (31), Parainfluenza (21), Metapneumovirus (19), RSV (19), Adenovirus (16), Coronavirus OC43/HKU1 (15), Coronavirus 229E/NL63 (11), Enterovirus (11).

c

The total count was smaller than the sum of the cases because of polymicrobial infection in some cases.