Table 1.

Demographical, clinical and bacteriological profiles of patients (N is the total number recorded for each variable)

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics		n	%
Gender (N=321)	Male	142	43.9
	Female	179	56.1
Surgery since admission (N=295):	Yes	87	29.5
	No	208	70.5
Diagnoses (N=250):	Skin and soft tissue infection	20	8.0
	Bone and joint infection	1	0.4
	Central nervous system infection	2	0.8
	Ear, nose and throat infection	2	0.8
	Eye infection	2	0.8
	Respiratory tract infection	18	7.2
	Cardiovascular system infection	2	0.8
	Gastrointestinal tract infection	15	6.0
	Urinary tract infection	6	2.4
	Obstetrics and gynecological infection	9	3.6
	Clinical sepsis	25	10.0
	Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)	2	0.8
	Undefined (site with no systemic inflammation)	33	13.2
	For use other than treatment	113	45.2
Culture sample taking (N=260)	Yes	38	14.6
	No	222	85.4
Specimens collected (N=47)a	Sputum and respiratory specimen	2	4.3
	Blood	9	19.1
	Sterile fluid	9	19.1
	Wound	20	42.6
	Urine	6	12.8
	Others	1	2.1
Culture results (N=47):	Positive	27	57.4
	Negative	20	42.6
Bacterial isolated from specimens (N=38)b	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	7	18.4
	Enterobacteriaceae*	19	50.0
	Staphylococcus aureus	12	31.6
Resistant phenotypes (N=37)	Resistance to third generation cephalosporins	14	37.8
	Carbapenem-resistant	3	8.1
	Methicillin-resistant S. aureus	5	13.5
	Unknown	15	40.5

^*Enterobacteriaceae: Klebsiella spp. - 14, Proteus spp, - 3, Escherichia coli - 2;.

^a47 specimens were collected from 38 patients.

^b38 bacteria were from 27 specimens with positive culture.