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Table 3 Pathogens identified by culture among 100 patients admitted with fever to a tertiary care hospital in South India

From: Fever in the tropics: aetiology and case-fatality - a prospective observational study in a tertiary care hospital in South India

Pathogen

Blood

Urine

Bone marrow

Sputum

CSF

Lymph node

 

n = 21

n = 24

n = 1

n = 13

n = 2

n = 2

Gram negative

      

  Escherichia coli

31 (14.3)

16 (66.7)

    

  Klebsiella spp.

12 (4.8)

1 (4.2)

    

  S. typhi/paratyphi

3 (14.3)

 

1 (100)

   

  Pseudomonas spp.

 

1 (4.2)

 

2 (15.4)

  

  Acinetobact. anitratus

   

1 (7.7)

  

  Gram negative rods

1 (4.8)

1 (4.2)

 

2 (15.4)

  

Gram positive

      

  Staph. aureus

23 (9.5)

     

  MRSA + Enterobact.

   

1 (7.7)

  

  Enterococcus spp.

14 (4.8)

4 (16.7)

    

  Strept. viridans

15 (4.8)

-

    

  Gram positive cocci

 

1 (4.2)

    

  Other

86 (38.1)

     

M. tuberculosis

   

6 (46.2)

 

2 (100)

Fungi

      

  Cryptococci

1 (4.8)

   

1 (50.0)

 

  Fungi not specified

 

2 (8.3)

 

12 (7.7)

12 (50.0)

 
  1. Data are given as number of positive samples with percentages in parentheses. Each patient may have had more than one positive sample.
  2. Abbreviations: CSF cerebrospinal fluid, spp species, S. Salmonella, MRSA methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Strept. Streptococcus, Staph Staphylococcus, Enterobact. Enterobacteriaceae, M mycobacterium.
  3. 1Samples from three patients with urosepsis.
  4. 2Sepsis with undefined focus.
  5. 3Samples from two patients with endocarditis.
  6. 4Spleen abscess.
  7. 5Pulmonary infection and sepsis.
  8. 6Spores, 3; difteroides, 2; gram positive bacteria and difteroides, 1; micrococci, 1, staphylococcus spp, 1.
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