Table 1.
Patient demographics, clinical diagnosis, numbers of positive cultures, AGT and microbiological diagnosis
| Meningitis (n = 7) | Biliary (n = 8) | Skin (n = 15) | Neutropenic sepsis (n = 15) | Miscellaneous (n = 29) | Urinary (n = 38) | SUO (n = 21) | Pulmonary (n = 139) | >1 susp. SOI (n = 46) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean age (y) | 59 | 58 | 64 | 54 | 54 | 61 | 64 | 58 | 61 |
| Sex (% male) | 71 | 88 | 67 | 60 | 79 | 68 | 43 | 63 | 52 |
| Mortality (%) | 14 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 13 |
| AGT (%) | 57 | 38 | 40 | 80 | 52 | 97 | 62 | 38 | 30 |
| Pos BC/BC obt | 2/7 | 4/8 | 3/13 | 3/15 | 3/28 | 9/36 | 6/21 | 15/126 | 10/43 |
| Pos UC/UC obt | 0/3 | 0/6 | 0/6 | 1/8 | 2/14 | 28/33 | 4/17 | 1/62 | 13/39 |
| Pos SC/SC obt | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 0/2 | 18/34 | 1/4 | |||
| Pos LC/LC obt | 4/6 | 0/4 | 0/1 | ||||||
| Pos OC/OC obt | 2/4 | 2/2 | 5/7 | 1/1 | |||||
| Microbiological diagnosis | 57% | 50% | 33% | 33% | 34% | 76% | 38% | 22% | 41% |
SUO: sepsis of unknown origin, SOI: source of infection, AGT: according to guideline therapy, BC: blood culture, UC: urine culture, SC: sputum culture, LC: liquor cerebrospinalis culture. OC: other culture, Pos: positive, Obt: obtained.