Table 4. MDRO species frequencies in children by swab location at hospital admission, AKK Hamburg, Germany, September 2018–May 2019 (n = 3,964 children).
| MDRO species | Swab location | Total swabs n = 7,928 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal/throat n = 3,964 |
Inguinal/anal n = 3,964 |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| MRSA | 21 | 0.53 | 9 | 0.23 | 30 | 0.38 |
| MRGN | 23 | 0.58 | 130 | 3.28 | 153 | 1.92 |
| Escherichia coli | 9 | 0.23 | 99 | 2.50 | 108 | 1.36 |
| Enterobacter species | 1 | 0.03 | 8 | 0.20 | 9 | 0.11 |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 2 | 0.05 | 5 | 0.13 | 7 | 0.09 |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 2 | 0.05 | 5 | 0.13 | 7 | 0.09 |
| Citrobacter species | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.08 | 3 | 0.04 |
| Serratia species | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.01 |
| Proteus species | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.01 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 1 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.01 |
| Other | 8 | 0.20 | 8 | 0.20 | 16 | 0.20 |
| Not available | 4 | 0.10 | 111 | 2.80 | 115 | 1.45 |
| No MRSA or MRGN detected | 3,893 | 98.21 | 3,584 | 90.41 | 7,477 | 94.31 |
AKK: Altona Children's Hospital; MDRO: multidrug-resistant organisms; MRGN: multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria; MRSA: meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.