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Table 2 The prevalence of Gram-positive bacteria isolated from blood cultures of hospitalized patients from 2015 to 2019

From: Bacterial etiology and antimicrobial resistance pattern of pediatric bloodstream infections: a 5-year experience in an Iranian referral hospital

Organism

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Total

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

CONS

138

54

169

56

172

57

100

43

118

55

697

53.1

Streptococcus spp.

56

22

64

21

50

16

49

21

18

8

237

18.1

Staphylococcus aureus

34

13

37

12

43

14

47

20

41

19

202

15.4

Enterococcus faecium

0

0

24

8

37

12

34

14

27

13

122

9.3

Enterococcus spp.

28

11

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

28

2.1

Enterococcus faecalis

0

0

2

1

1

0

4

2

10

5

17

1.3

Corynebacterium spp.

0

0

5

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

0.4

Micrococcus spp.

0

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

4

0.3

 

256

 

302

 

304

 

235

 

215

 

1312

 
  1. CONS coagulase-negative staphylococci