Table 3,

online: EOS causing organisms

Organism(s)--Blood	Organism(s)--CSFa	n (column %)
Gram positive		42 (27.5)
	Viridans streptococci	1 (0.7)
Group B strep		28 (18.3)
Staph aureus		3 (2.0)
Viridans streptococci		3 (2.0)
Enterococcus		2 (1.3)
MRSA		2 (1.3)
Strep pneumoniae		2 (1.3)
Alpha hemolytic strep		1 (0.7)
Gram negative		100 (65.4)
	E. coli	1 (0.7)
E. coli		65 (42.5)
E. coli	E. coli	7 (4.6)
Haemophilus		10 (6.5)
Klebsiella		4 (2.6)
Acinetobacter		2 (1.3)
Capnocytophaga		2 (1.3)
Citrobacter		2 (1.3)
Morganella morganii		2 (1.3)
Bacteroides		1 (0.7)
Campylobacter		1 (0.7)
Eikenella corrodens		1 (0.7)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa		1 (0.7)
Sphingomonas paucimobilis		1 (0.7)
Fungi		2 (1.3)
Candida albicans		1 (0.7)
Saccharomyces		1 (0.7)
Polymicrobial		6 (3.9)
	Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter lwoffii, Micrococcus	1 (0.7)
E. coli, CONS		1 (0.7)
E. coli, Group B strep		1 (0.7)
E. coli, Strep viridans		1 (0.7)
Neisseria, Haemophilus		1 (0.7)
Strep bovis, Corynebacterium		1 (0.7)
Not specified		3 (2.0)
Missing		2 (1.3)
Other bacteria (699)		1 (0.7)
Total number of cases		153

^aThree of the 10 infants with a positive CSF culture had meningitis alone (1 Viridans streptococci, 1 E. coli, 1 Acinetobacter plus Micrococcus); 7 had E. coli on both blood and CSF cultures.