TABLE 2.

Cases With a Pathogen Detected by Blood Culture—PERCH, Thailand, 2012–2013^a

Age (months)	Pneumonia Severity	Pathogen Detected By Blood Culture	Pathogens Detected By NP/OP PCR	CXR Result	Antibiotic Pretreatment Before Specimen Collectionb	Comorbidities/Prematurity	Died in Hospital or Within 30 Days of Discharge	Duration of Hospitalization (days)
2	Severe	Escherichia coli	CMVHaemophilus influenzaePneumocystis jirovecii	Not performed	No	Premature (36 weeks)	No	7
2	Severe	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus	Normal	Yes	No	Yes (in hospital)	3
13	Severe	M. catarrhalis	CMV, H. influenzaeM. catarrhalisStreptococcus pneumoniaeRSV	Other infiltrate	Yes	Congenital heart disease, malnutrition	No	6
39	Very severe	M. catarrhalis	CMVinfluenza BM. catarrhalisS. pneumoniae	Normal	No	No	No	7
45	Severe	Streptococcus pyogenes	CMVinfluenza B	Consolidation	Yes	Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, congenital hypothyroidism	Yes (in hospital)	5

^aThe one HIV+ case in Thailand had nontyphoidal Salmonella detected on blood culture and is not included in the table. This case had very severe pneumonia, both consolidation and other infiltrate detected on chest radiograph, CMV, H. influenzae and P. jirovecii detected by NPPCR, and was discharged after 29 days in hospital.

^bPresence of antibiotics by serum, antibiotics at the referral hospital, clinician report of antibiotics before specimen collection or antibiotics before specimen collection based on time. Of specimen collection and time of antibiotic administration.

NP/OP indicates nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; CMV, cytomegalovirus; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.