Table 5.
Microbiological characteristics and hospital
| Microbiological variable | All n = 71) | Protocol | P value | Missing | All (n = 71) | Protocol | P value | Missing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A (n = 39) | B (n = 32) | A (n = 39) | B (n = 32) | |||||||
| First culture | 1 | 15 | ||||||||
| Negative culture | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0.058b | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0.212a | ||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 29 | 13 | 16 | 0.182a | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0.489b | ||
| Staphylococcus epidermidis(CoNS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.0b | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0b | ||
| Polymicrobial infections | 27 | 16 | 11 | 0.508a | 26 | 10 | 16 | 0.698a | ||
| Other single microbial infectionsc | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0.455b | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1.0b | ||
Data are presented as the number of cases
aPearson Chi-square
bFisher’s exact
cEnterococcus faecalis, Enterobacter gergoviae, Enterobacter cloacae complex, Citrobacter koseri, Klebsiella oxytoca, Gram negative bacteria, Candida albicans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus constellatus, Escherichia coli, Clostridium spp