Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients.
*SM isolation from any clinical sample of the patient except blood culture within the last one month.
MV: Mechanical ventilation, TPN: Total parenteral nutrition, APACHE II: Acute physiological and chronic health evaluation, CVC: Central venous catheter, PBS: Pittsburgh bacteraemia score, SM: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
| Demographic characteristics | Number of patients (n) | Percentage (%) |
| Age (median, min.-max.) | 54 (18-84) | |
| Gender: Female & Male | 59 & 81 | 42.1 & 57.9 |
| MV | 71 | 50.7 |
| CVC | 101 | 72.1 |
| TPN | 58 | 41.4 |
| Urinary catheter | 103 | 73.6 |
| Nasogastric catheter | 68 | 48.6 |
| Drainage catheter | 54 | 38.6 |
| History of surgery within last month | 43 | 30.7 |
| Sepsis | 93 | 66.4 |
| Septic shock | 47 | 33.6 |
| PBS ≥ 4 | 59 | 42.1 |
| PBS< 4 | 70 | 50 |
| APACHE II ≥20 | 25 | 17.9 |
| APACHE II <20 | 46 | 32.9 |
| Antibiotic use within last 14 days | 127 | 90.7 |
| Use of carbapenem within last three months | 96 | 68.6 |