Microbial spectrum and drug resistance profile in solid malignancies in a large tertiary hospital from Palestine

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 3 Detected organisms in each culture of suspected blood stream infection

Causative organisms	Frequency	Percent (%)
Gram-positive bacteria	61	52.6
Staphylococcus aureus	5	4.3
Staphylococcus epidermidis	17	14.7
Other staphylococcal species¹	22	19
Enterococcus species²	8	6.9
Actinomyces	2	1.7
Micrococcus luteus	5	4.3
Bacillus species	1	0.9
Other pathogens	3	2.6
Gram negative bacteria	46	39.7
Escherichia coli	21	18.1
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	6	5.2
Klebsiella species³	18	15.5
Acinetobacter baumannii	6	5.2
Fungi	18	15.5
Candida species⁴	18	15.5
Multi drug resistant bacteria	18	15.5
Polymicrobial BSI⁵	13	11.2
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	2	40

¹Staphylococcus capitis, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Staphylococcus hominis, Staphylococcus cohnii, Staphylococcus warneri
²Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus durans
³Klebsiella pneumonia, Klebsiella oxytoca
⁴Candida glabarta, Candida parapsilosis, Candida albicans, Candida krusei, Candida kefyr, Candida tropicalis, Candida dubliniensis
⁵Polymicrobial: growth of two or more organisms in the same blood culture

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