Table 3.
Microbiological diagnostics and culture and sensitivity results
| Variable | n (%) |
| Sample collected for microbiological workup, n=870 patients* | |
| Yes | 119 (13.6) |
| No | 693 (79.7) |
| Unknown | 58 (6.7) |
| Specimen type, n=119 patients | |
| Blood | 53 (44.5) |
| Urine | 26 (21.9) |
| Cerebrospinal fluid | 13 (10.9) |
| Pus | 11 (9.2) |
| Blood and urine | 8 (6.7) |
| Blood and cerebrospinal fluid | 6 (5.1) |
| Peritoneal fluid | 2 (1.7) |
| Culture result, n=119 patients | |
| Positive | 38 (31.9) |
| Negative | 29 (24.4) |
| Unknown | 52 (43.7) |
| Isolated microorganism, n=41 | |
| Gram positive bacteria | 13 (31.7) |
| Gram negative bacteria | 28 (68.3) |
| Type of isolated bacteria, n=41† | |
| Escherichia coli | 8 (19.5) |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 7 (17.1) |
| Klebsiella oxytoca | 4 (9.8) |
| Acinetobacter | 4 (9.8) |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 4 (9.8) |
| Enterobacter aerogenes | 3 (7.3) |
| Enterococcus | 3 (7.3) |
| Coagulase negative staphylococcus, contaminant | 3 (7.3) |
| Others‡ | 5 (12.2) |
| Resistant phenotype, n=21 | |
| Third-generation cephalosporin resistant Enterobacteriaceae | 13 (61.9) |
| Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus | 3 (14.3) |
| Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae | 3 (14.3) |
| Carbapenem resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 1 (4.8) |
| Carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter | 1 (4.8) |
*Only for those whose indication type is for healthcare-associated infection and community-acquired infection.
†For one patient Klebsiella oxytoca from blood and Klebsiella pneumoniae from urine, from another patient streptococcus from blood and Klebsiella pneumoniae from blood and another one Klebsiella pneumoniae from urine and Acinetobacter from blood were isolated.
‡Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Citrobacter, Gram positive cocci, Group A streptococcus, Group D streptococcus.