Table 1.

Patients' characteristics

Patient	Details (n, %)
Gender	Females (392, 53·2%)
	Males (345, 46·8%)
	Total (737, 100·0%)
Age range	Neonate to 100 years
Clinical specimens	Blood (664, 90·1%)
	Cerebrospinal fluid (48, 6·5%)
	Synovial fluid (12, 1·6%)
	Other fluid* (13, 1·8%)
Clinical syndromes	Hib	Non-b	NTHi	Untyped	Total
All syndromes	71	110	405	151	737
Sepsis – unspecified	6	21	64	28	119
Pneumonia ± empyema	33	40	198	89	360
Meningitis	20	31	39	4	94
Neonatal sepsis	1	1	37	3	42
O&G† infections	0	0	24	8	32
Septic arthritis	3	10	10	3	26
Mucosal infections	0	4	15	5	24
Neutropenic sepsis	1	1	10	1	13
Biliary infections	0	1	5	4	10
Urinary tract infections	1	0	6	2	9
Epiglottitis	5	0	1	1	7
Other infections‡	0	0	3	3	6
Soft tissue infections	1	1	3	0	5

^*Vitreous/pericardial/peritoneal/empyema fluid.

^†Obstetric and gynaecological.

^‡Endophthalmitis, pericarditis, peritonitis.