Characteristic | All patients | Children |
Positive culture | 4543/6663 (68) | 631/1093 (63) |
Monomicrobial | 3067 (77) | 325 (73) |
Polymicrobial | 902 (23) | 117 (27) |
Cultured microorganisms | 5894 | 724 |
Streptococcus spp | 2000 (34) | 260 (36) |
Viridans streptococci | 755 (13) | 58 (6) |
S. pneumoniae | 139 (2) | 27 (4) |
Enterococcus | 49 (0.8) | 2 (0.3) |
Other/not specified | 1057 (18) | 173 (24) |
Staphylococcus spp | 1076 (18) | 128 (18) |
S. aureus | 782 (13) | 80 (11) |
S. epidermidis | 148 (3) | 31 (4) |
Not specified | 146 (2) | 16 (2) |
Gram-negative enteric | 861 (15) | 114 (16) |
Proteus spp | 417 (7) | 60 (8) |
Klebsiella pneumoniae | 135 (2) | 11 (2) |
Escherichia coli | 126 (2) | 18 (2) |
Enterobacteriae | 101 (2) | 9 (1) |
Pseudomonas spp | 122 (2) | 13 (2) |
Actinomycetales | 148 (3) | 16 (2) |
Nocardia | 57 (1) | 0 |
Corynebacterium | 49 (0.8) | 7 (1) |
Actinomyces | 48 (0.8) | 8 (1) |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 41 (0.7) | 1 (0.2) |
Haemophilus spp | 124 (2) | 41 (6) |
Peptostreptococcus spp | 165 (3) | 45 (6) |
Bacteroides spp | 370 (6) | 33 (5) |
Fusobacterium spp | 119 (2) | 17 (2) |
Parasites | 5 (0.1) | 0 |
Fungi | 83 (1) | 8 (1) |
Other | 821 (13) | 49 (7) |