A changing profile of infective endocarditis at a tertiary hospital in China: a retrospective study from 2001 to 2018

Table 3 Microorganism found in the 181 patients with positive blood culture results

Variable	Total	Early-period Group	Later-period Group	OR	95% CI		P
Variable	N = 181	N = 46	N = 135	OR	Lower	Upper	P
Gram-positive coccus	161 (89.0)	40 (87.0)	121 (89.6)	1.296	0.467	3.599	0.617
Staphylococcus aureus	46 (25.4)	19 (41.3)	27 (20.0)	0.355	0.172	0.732	0.004
Streptococcus	76 (42.0)	17 (37.0)	59 (43.7)	1.324	0.665	2.636	0.423
Other	43 (23.8)	6 (13.0)	37 (27.4)	2.517	0.985	6.429	0.048
Enterococcus	14 (7.7)	1 (2.2)	13 (9.6)	4.795	0.610	37.715	0.188
Globicatella Sanguis	11 (6.1)	2 (4.3)	9 (6.7)	1.571	0.327	7.554	0.833
Gram-negative bacilli	11 (6.1)	1 (2.2)	10 (7.4)	3.600	0.448	28.922	0.355
Other bacterial	7 (3.9)	2 (4.3)	5 (3.7)	0.846	0.158	4.518	0.805
Fungi	6 (3.3)	3 (6.5)	3 (2.2)	0.326	0.063	1.674	0.352

Variables are presented as count (%). P value were estimated by Chi-squared tests. One patient could be isolated two or more kinds of causative microorganisms from blood culture

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