Table 2.
Bacterial isolates from urine and blood cultures.
| Causative agent | Patients with UTI n = 419 |
Patients with urosepsis n = 70 |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gram-negative rods | |||
| Escherichia coli | 196 (39.2%) | 12 (17.1%) | < 0.001 |
| Klebsiella spp | 47 (11.2%) | 15 (21.4%) | 0.020 |
| Enterobacter | 40 (9.54%) | 9 (12.8%) | ns |
| Proteus spp | 30 (7.15%) | 4 (5.7%) | ns |
| Acinetobacter | 26 (6.2%) | 3 (4.3%) | ns |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 18 (3.6%) | 3 (4.3%) | ns |
| Gram-positive cocci | |||
| Enterococcus spp | 30 (7.15%) | 11 (15.7%) | 0.030 |
| Staphyloccocus aureus | 12 (2.9%) | 4 (5.7%) | 0.036 |
| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) | 20 (4.77%) | 5 (7.1%) | 0.043 |
| Multiple organisms | 10 (2%) | 4 (5.7%) | 0.050 |
ns Non-significant.