Table 2.

(Upper) number of patients experiencing bacteremia and types of bacteremia found in their blood cultures. (below) number of patients with candidemia. When more than 1 microorganism was detected in the same patients in one or more blood culture (e.g. gram-positive -and negative bacteria), both were documented. However, when different bacteria were classified in the same category, they were only counted once for that category (e.g. staphylococcus epidermidis and hominis). CNS = coagulase-negative staphyloccus.

	EMC (n = 99)	UZL (n = 73)	p-value
Gram-positive	97 (98%)	67 (91·8%)	0·338
Staphylococcus	80 (80·8%)	47 (64·4%)	0·139
CNS	77 (77·8%)	46 (63%)	0·238
S. Aureus	3 (3%)	1 (1·4%)	1·000
Streptococcus	11 (11·1%)	5 (6·8%)	1·000
Enterococcus	13 (13·1%)	21 (28·8%)	0·109
Other gram-positives	9 (9·1%)	6 (8·2%)	1·000
Gram-negative	10 (10·1%)	11 (15·1%)	1·000
Candidemia	9 (3%) of all patients	1 (0·4%) of all patients	0·181