Table 1.

Organisms isolated and susceptibility to empirical treatment received

Patient number	Type of sample	Organisms isolated	Antibiotics received on admission	Susceptibility of isolates to empirical antibiotics received
1	Blood culture	Escherichia coli	Teicoplanin and clarithromycina	No
2	Blood culture	Escherichia coli	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	No
3	Blood culture	Klebsiella pneumoniae	Not received (patient on palliative pathway)	Not applicable
4	Blood cultureb	Klebsiella variicola	Ciprofloxacin	Yes
5	Blood culture	Proteus mirabilis	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
6	Blood culture	Proteus mirabilis	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
7	Blood culture	Proteus mirabilis	Ceftriaxone and amikacin	Yes
8	Blood culture	Proteus mirabilis	Ciprofloxacin and amikacin	Yes
9	Blood culture	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Co-amoxiclav and amikacin	Yes
10	Blood culture	MRSA	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
11	Blood culture	MSSA	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
12	Blood culture (central line)	Staphylococcus epidermidis	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	No
13	Sputum	Escherichia coli (ESBL), Candida albicans	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	No
14	Sputum	Group A Streptococcus	Teicoplanin and clarithromycina	Yes
15	Sputum	Haemophilus influenzae	Cefuroxime	Yes
16	Sputum	Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida spp	Cefuroxime and clarithromycin	No
17	Sputum	MSSA	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
18	Sputum	MSSA	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
19	Sputum	MSSA	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
20	Sputum	MSSA	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
21	Urine (catheter)	Coliform, Candida species	Cefuroxime and clarithromycin	Yes
22	Urine	Escherichia coli	Co-amoxiclav and clarithromycin	Yes
23	Urine (catheter)	Escherichia coli	Co-amoxiclav and clarithromycin	Yes
24	Urine (catheter)	Escherichia coli	Ceftriaxone	Yes
25	Urine	Escherichia coli	Piperacillin/tazobactam and gentamicin	Yes
26	Urine	Escherichia coli	Piperacillin/tazobactam	Yes
27	Urine (catheter)	Escherichia coli (ESBL), Enterococcus faecalis	Ceftriaxone and amikacin	Yes
28	Urine	Enterococcus faecalis	Ceftriaxone and amikacin	Yes
29	Urine	Klebsiella pneumoniae	Piperacillin/tazobactam and teicoplanin (neutropenic sepsis)	No
4	Urine (nephrostomy)b	Klebsiella variicola	Ciprofloxacin	Yes
30	Urinary pneumococcal antigen test	Streptococcus pneumoniae	Piperacillin/tazobactam and clarithromycin	Yes
31	Urinary pneumococcal antigen test	Streptococcus pneumoniae	Teicoplanin and clarithromycina	Yes
32	Urinary pneumococcal antigen test	Streptococcus pneumoniae	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
33	Eye swab	MSSA	Ceftriaxone and clarithromycin	Yes
34	Foot ulcer swab	Serratia species	Benzylpenicillin, flucloxacillin and gentamicin	Yes
35	Foot ulcer swab	MSSA	Ceftriaxone, clarithromycin and doxycycline	Yes
36	Psoas abscess drainage	Specimen 1: Escherichia coli (ESBL), Klebsiella oxytoca, Streptococcus anginosus, Candida species, Bacteroides ovatus   Specimen 2: Granulicatella adiacens, Escherichia coli (ESBL), Escherichia coli, anaerobe	Piperacillin/tazobactam and clarithromycin	Yes
37	Surgical wound swab	Specimen 1: Group A streptococcus   Specimen 2: Staphylococcus aureus	Co-amoxiclav	Yes

^aHistory of penicillin allergy.

^bSpecimens from the same patients.