Table 2.
Major characteristics of the BSIs and infected neonates according to the micro-organism
| BSIs | Infected neonates | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Portal of entry | Sex | Birth weight (g) | Gestational age (week) | Early death (%) | |||||||||||
| CVC | UVC | Cutaneous | Pulmonary | Urinary | Digestive | Others | Not identified | Male | Female | < 1500 g | Median | < 33 weeks | Median | |||
| Micro-organism | ||||||||||||||||
| All | 141 | 47 | 23 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 23 | 81 | 60 | 112 (79.4) | 980 | 113 (80.1) | 28 | 22 (15.6) |
| S. aureus | 24 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 16 (66.7) | 1,100 | 16 (66.7) | 30 | 7 (29.2) | |
| S. epidermidis | 55 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 35 | 20 | 43 (78.2) | 910 | 43 (78.2) | 27 | 5 (9.1) | |
| S. haemolyticus | 22 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 22 (100.0) | 917 | 21 (95.4) | 27 | 3 (13.6) | ||
| S. capitis | 20 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 16 (80.0) | 855 | 15 (75.0) | 26 | 1 (5.0) | ||
| Enterococci | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 (57.1) | 1,260 | 4 (57.1) | 31 | 1 (14.3) | |||
| Enterobacteriaceae | 17 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 9 (52.9) | 1,480 | 11 (64.7) | 29 | 5 (29.4) | |
| Bacillus cereus | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 (66.7) | 745 | 3 (100.0) | 28 | 0 | |||||