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Table 2 Microorganisms causing 200 episodes of IE among patients admitted to the Veterans General Hospital Kaohsiung, Taiwan over a five-year period (2004 to 2009)

From: Non-nosocomial healthcare-associated infective endocarditis in Taiwan: an underrecognized disease with poor outcome

Pathogens

All

Community-acquired IE

Healthcare-associated IE

 

N = 200

non-IVDU

n = 89

IVDU

n = 59

non-nosocomial

n = 30

nosocomial IE

n = 22

Staphylococci, n (%)

115 (57.5)

21 (23.6)

54 (91.5)

23 (76.7)

17 (77.3)

MSSA

65

15

42

8

0

MRSA

44

2

12

13

17

Coagulase-negative Staphylococci

6

4

0

2

0

Streptococci, n (%)

57 (28.5)

50 (56.2)

1 (1.7)

4 (13.3)

2 (9.1)

Viridans streptococci

38

35

0

3

0

Streptococcus bovis

9

8

0

1

0

Streptococcus agalactiae

5

3

1

0

1

Streptococcus pyogenes

1

1

0

0

0

Streptococcus pneumoniae

1

1

0

0

0

NVS

3

2

0

0

1

Enterococci, n (%)

9 (4.5)

5 (5.6)

0 (0)

3 (10.0)

1 (4.5)

Enterococcus faecalis

8

5

0

2

1

Enterococcus faecium

1

0

0

1

0

Gram negative bacilli, n (%)

3 (1.5)

0 (0)

2 (3.4)

0 (0)

1 (4.5)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

1

0

1

0

0

Chryseobacterium indologenes

1

0

0

0

1

Enterobacter cloacae

1

0

1

0

0

HACEK group, n (%)

2 (1.0)

2 (2.2)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans

1

1

0

0

0

Haemophilus parainfluenzae

1

1

0

0

0

Others, n (%)

6 (3.0)

5 (5.6)

1 (1.7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Rothia dentocariosa

2

1

1

0

0

Finegoldia magna

1

1

0

0

0

Lactococcus lactis

1

1

0

0

0

Lactococcus gravieae

1

1

0

0

0

Candida albicans

1

1

0

0

0

Culture negative, n (%)

8 (4.0)

6 (6.7)

1 (1.7)

0 (0)

1 (4.5)

  1. IE, infective endocarditis; IVDU, intravenous drug user; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; NVS, nutritionally variant streptococci; HACEK, Haemophilus species, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, Kingella species