Table 3.
Healthcare-associated infections: organisms and source and time to infection.
| Number of patients | Source |
Median time to infection | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood | Respiratory | Urine | others | |||
| Gram-positive infections | ||||||
| MRSA | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| MSSA | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| Staphylococcus hominis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Group D Streptococcus | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12.5 |
| Gram-negative infections | ||||||
| Escherichia coli | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 19 |
| Klebsiella | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 21 |
| Pseudomonas | 10 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 15.5 |
| Serratia | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 28 |
| Enterobacter | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 19.5 |
| Proteus | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21.5 |
| Citrobacter | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Acinetobacter | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Stenotrophomonas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Fungal infections | ||||||
| Candida albicans | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| Non-Candida albicans | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| Clostridium difficile | 14 | |||||
Abbreviations: MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.