Table 4.
Distribution of Gram-negative organisms in cancer patients at different intervals
| Total number of organisms | Before radiation (n=96), n (%) |
After radiation 3 months (n=25), n (%) |
After radiation 6 months (n=12), n (%) |
Control (n=12), n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 12 (12.5) | 4 (16) | 1 (8.3) | - |
| Escherichia coli | 6 (6.2) | - | - | - |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 6 (6.2) | 1 (4) | - | - |
| Pasteurella species | 5 (5.2) | - | - | - |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 4 (4.1) | - | - | - |
| Shigella dysenteriae | 3 (3.1) | - | - | |
| Enterobacter aerogenes | 2 (2) | - | - | - |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 2 (2) | 1 (4) | - | - |
| Proteus mirabilis | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Serratia marcescens | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Pantoea agglomerans | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Neisseria animaloris | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Neisseria species | - | - | - | 1 (8) |
| Methylobacterium extorquens | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Ewingella americana | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Citrobacter species | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Bordetella bronchiseptica | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Chromobacterium haemolyticum | 1 (1) | - | - | - |
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | - | - | 1 (8.3) | - |