TABLE 3.

Most common pathogens by site of infection in children with sepsis

Organism	Bacteremia (%)	CNS (%)	UTI (%)	SSTI (%)	Pneumonia (%)	Osteomyelitis (%)
S. aureus	19	12	6	30	15	51
S. pneumoniae	2	9	1	0.2	4	1
Other Gram‐positives	28	25	9	11	6	16
K. pneumoniae	8	2	5	1	3	2
E. coli	11	2	23	2	5	3
H. influenzae	1	3	0.3	0.4	4	1
Pseudomonas	7	2	5	4	13	3
Other Gram‐negatives	13	9	6	3	10	2
Candida	9	9	5	7	7	5
Aspergillus	0.4	1	0.2	0.5	0.3	0
No identifiable pathogen	N/A	21	36	37	31	15

Note. Adapted from Prout et al. ⁹ , ¹²

Abbreviations: CNS, central nervous system; N/A, not applicable; SSTI, skin/soft tissue infection; UTI, urinary tract infection.