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. 2000 Dec;38(12):4586–4592. doi: 10.1128/jcm.38.12.4586-4592.2000

TABLE 2.

Recovery of gram-negative bacilli, by specimen source

Organism No. of clinical specimens
Total no. of specimens (345)a Feces (184) Urine (100) Pus (17) Otorrheic specimen (13) Sputum or nasal swab (13) Exudate (5) Ascitic fluid (2) Peritoneal drainage (2) Urine catheter tip (1) Pleural fluid (1) Bile (1) Otherb (6)
Acinetobacter baumannii 4 2 1 1
Acinetobacter lwoffii 1 1
Citrobacter amalonaticus 1 1
Citrobacter diversus 4 4
Citrobacter freundii 13 11 1 1
Enterobacter aerogenes 2 1 1
Enterobacter agglomerans 1 1
Enterobacter cloacae 37 20 5 1 1 5 1 4
Escherichia coli 220 135 70 7 2 3 2 1
Klebsiella oxytoca 23 19 1 2 1
Klebsiella pneumoniae 63 42 10 4 5 1 1
Morganella morganii 10 8 2
Proteus mirabilis 9 4 2 3
Proteus penneri 1 1
Proteus vulgaris 2 1 1
Providencia alcalifaciens 1 1
Providencia rustigianii 1 1
Providencia stuartii 1 1
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 42 6 12 4 9 4 2 1 2 2
Salmonella spp. 15 13 1 1
Serratia marcescens 19 13 3 1 1 1
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia 2 1 1
 Total no. of isolates 472 284 109 22 13 19 6 3 2 3 1 1 9
a

Values in parentheses are the total number of specimens yielding one or more gram-negative bacilli. 

b

Gastric juice, bronchial tube and other tubes.