Table 2 Age distribution of 552 bacterial isolates from blood cultures of 1201 children with suspected septicaemia in Calabar Nigeria
From: Bacterial isolates from blood cultures of children with suspected septicaemia in Calabar, Nigeria
Types of bacterial isolates | Number of children with positive bacterial cultures in age groups (N = 552) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
≤ 1 mo. | 2 mo. – 1 yr | 2 yr – 5 yr | 6 yr – 10 yr | 11 – 18 yr | Sub-total (% N) | |
S. aureus | 138 | 52 | 51 | 22 | 6 | 269 (48.7) |
Coliforms | 63 | 24 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 129 (23.4) |
Unidentified Gram-negative rods. | 18 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 44 (8.0) |
Pseudomonas spp. | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 32 (5.8) |
β-haemolytic Streptococci | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 (2.2) |
Other Streptococci | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 14 (2.5) |
Chromobacterium spp. | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 25 (4.5) |
Salmonella typhi | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 (0.7) |
Other Salmonella spp. | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 (1.6) |
CNS* | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 (1.6) |
Proteus spp. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 (0.9) |
Sub-total (% N) | 271 (49.1) | 113 (20.5) | 113 (20.5) | 39 (7.1) | 16 (2.9) | 552 (100) |