TABLE 1.
Comparison of etiological profile between male and female among different age categories.
| Organism | Newborn |
Pediatric |
Adult |
Geriatric |
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| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| (N = 111) | (N = 115) | (N = 504) | (N = 562) | (N = 2,208) | (n = 5,438) | (N = 1,559) | (N = 2,470) | |
| Escherichia coli | 20% | 19% | 25% | 41% | 27% | 50% | 24% | 50% |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 9% | 4% | 14% | 6% | 11% | 9% | 8% | 4% |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 3% | 0 | 7% | 4% | 10% | 3% | 11% | 4% |
| Enterococcus faecium | 39% | 51% | 19% | 22% | 9% | 6% | 11% | 9% |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 8% | 17% | 9% | 12% | 8% | 8% | 14% | 13% |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 4% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3% | 3% | 2% | 0 |
| Burkholderia cepacia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3% | 0 | 3% | 0 |
| Proteus mirabilis | 0 | 0 | 3% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 6% | 5% |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3% | 2% | 2% | 0 |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 3% | 0 | 4% | 0 | 2% | 0 | 3% | 0 |
| Morganella morganii | 0 | 0 | 2% | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Staphylococcus haemolyticus | 0 | 0 | 2% | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Klebsiella aerogenes | 3% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Klebsiella oxytoca | 5% | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enterococcus gallinarum | 0 | 2% | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Serratia marcescens | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Streptococcus agalactiae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5% | 0 | 0 |
| Others (<2%) | 4% | 5% | 13% | 11% | 14% | 10% | 16% | 15% |