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Table 1 Demographic and clinical data of study participants

From: Blood culture surveillance in a secondary care hospital in Benin: epidemiology of bloodstream infection pathogens and antimicrobial resistance

Total number of patients

3032

Total number of suspected BSI episodes

3082

Number of suspected BSI episodes per hospital

 Boko hospital

2724

(88.4%)

 CHUD Parakou

358

(11.6%)

Median age of patients

2

Patient sex

 Female

44.7%

(1286/2880)

 Male

55.3%

(1594/2880)

Antibiotic treatment before culture

22.5%

(684/3036)

Healthcare-associated infection

10.4%

(318/3065)

Pathogen rate of suspected episodes

12.4%

(381/3082)

Contamination rate

16.9%

(565/3353)

Thick blood film positive (malaria diagnosis)

51.8%

(1255/2423)

Thick blood film positive in confirmed BSI episodes

40.2%

(101/251)

Presumed focus of infection

 Generalized

2088

 Respiratory

7.9%

(216/2730)

 Purulent

2.4%

(66/2730)

 Central nervous system

1.8%

(49/2730)

 Abdominal

1.5%

(40/2730)

 Urinary/genital

1.3%

(36/2730)

  1. CHUD Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Departemental; BSI bloodstream infection