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Table 1 The prevalence of Gram-negative bacteria isolated from blood cultures of hospitalized patients from 2015 to 2019

From: Bacterial etiology and antimicrobial resistance pattern of pediatric bloodstream infections: a 5-year experience in an Iranian referral hospital

Organism

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Total

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

Pseudomonas spp.

13

2.8

64

9.8

66

17.8

49

19.9

74

22.3

266

17.6

Klebsiella pneumoniae

35

7.5

48

7.4

40

10.8

59

24

60

18.1

242

16

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

19

4.1

90

13.8

88

23.8

0

0

7

2.1

204

13.5

Enterobacter spp.

20

4.3

27

4.1

59

15.9

18

7.3

40

12

164

10.8

Escherichia coli

37

7.9

39

6

23

6.2

23

9.3

37

11.1

159

10.5

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

23

4.9

16

2.5

16

4.3

38

15.4

33

9.9

126

8.3

Serratia marcescens

19

4.1

26

4

45

12.2

12

4.9

19

5.7

121

8

Acinetobacter baumannii

9

1.9

20

3.1

9

2.4

24

9.8

11

3.3

73

4.8

Klebsiella spp.

25

5.3

13

2

3

0.8

5

2

13

3.9

59

3.9

Salmonella spp.

8

1.7

3

0.5

10

2.7

8

3.3

6

1.8

35

2.3

Morganella morganii

1

0.2

1

0.2

0

0

0

0

26

7.8

28

1.9

Burkholderia cepacia

0

0

0

0

2

0.5

8

3.3

5

1.5

15

1

Haemophilus spp.

2

0.4

0

0

6

1.6

0

0

0

0

8

0.5

Citrobacter freundii

0

0

1

0.2

1

0.3

2

0.8

1

0.3

5

0.3

Brucella spp.

1

0.2

1

0.2

2

0.5

0

0

0

0

4

0.3

Proteus mirabilis

1

0.2

1

0.2

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0.1

Neisseria meningitidis

0

0

1

0.2

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0.1

Total

213

 

351

 

370

 

246

 

332

 

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