Table 3.

Prevalence of bacterial etiologies and culture positivity.

	Bacterial species	Overall, n 66	Severe sepsis, n 32	Blood cultures	Tissue cultures	Biological samples cultures	Not severe sepsis, n 34	Blood cultures	Tissue cultures	Biological samples cultures
1	Streptococcus spp, n (%)	6 (9)	4 (12)	1 (25)	1 (25)	1 (25)	2 (6)	1 (50)	0	0
2	Staphylococcus spp, n (%)	3 (4.5)	3 (9)	3 (100)	0	0	0	NA	NA	NA
3	Neisseria spp, n (%)	2 (3)	2 (6)	2 (100)	0	0	0	NA	NA	NA
4	Salmonella spp, n (%)	9 (13.6)	5 (16)	3 (60)	0	2 (40)	4 (12)	2 (50)	0	2 (50)
5	Escherichia spp, n (%)	5 (7.6)	4 (12)	4 (100)	0	1 (25)	1 (3)	0	0	1 (100)
6	Campylobacter spp, n (%)	20 (30)	2 (6)	0	0	2 (100)	18 (53)	0	0	18 (100)
7	Rickettsia spp, n (%)	7 (10.6)	3 (9)	0	1 (33)	0	4 (12)	0	1 (25)	0
8	Klebsiella spp, n (%)	2 (3)	2 (6)	1 (50)	1 (50)	1 (50)	0	NA	NA	NA
9	Listeria spp, n (%)	2 (3)	2 (6)	2 (100)	0	0	0	NA	NA	NA
10	Mycobacterium spp, n (%)	1 (1.5)	0	NA	NA	NA	1 (3)	0	1 (100)	0
11	Leptospira spp, n (%)	1 (1.5)	1 (3)	0	0	0	0	NA	NA	NA
12	Chlamydia spp, n (%)	5 (7.6)	3 (9)	0	1 (33)	1 (33)	2 (6)	1 (50)	1 (50)	1 (50)
13	Coxiella spp, n (%)	1 (1.5)	0	NA	NA	NA	1 (3)	0	0	0
14	Brucella spp, n (%)	1 (1.5)	1 (3)	1 (100)	0	0	0	NA	NA	NA
15	Mycoplasma spp, n (%)	1 (1.5)	0	NA	NA	NA	1 (3)	0	0	0