TABLE 2.
Comparison of etiological profile among different ward types among the age categories of adult and geriatric.
| Organism | Adult* |
Geriatric* |
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| Outpatient | Inpatient | ICU | Emergency | Outpatient | Inpatient | ICU | Emergency | |
| (N = 3,061) | (N = 4,390) | (N = 290) | (N = 214) | (N = 1,730) | (N = 1,413) | (N = 333) | (N = 618) | |
| Escherichia coli | 50% | 41% | 21% | 18% | 51% | 40% | 16% | 19% |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 9% | 7% | 8% | 12% | 13% | 11% | 16% | 21% |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 9% | 10% | 8% | 10% | 5% | 7% | 7% | 6% |
| Streptococcus agalactiae | 6% | 3% | 0 | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 4% | 6% | 10% | 7% | 5% | 7% | 9% | 9% |
| Proteus mirabilis | 3% | 3% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 5% | 8% | 8% |
| Staphylococcus epidermidis | 3% | 3% | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enterococcus faecium | 2% | 8% | 26% | 28% | 3% | 11% | 21% | 22% |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 2% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2% |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3% | 0 | 0 |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 0 | 2% | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 6% | 3% |
| Klebsiella oxytoca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Others (< 2%) | 12% | 13% | 21% | 13% | 15% | 16% | 17% | 10% |
*Due to the small sample size in newborn and pediatric categories from different wards, these were not included for analysis. Only the data from adult and geriatric categories were included for analysis.