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Table 6 Microbiological diagnosis in catheter-associated bloodstream infection (BSI) and non-catheter-associated BSI from 167 patients at Austin Hospital

From: Acquired bloodstream infection in the intensive care unit: incidence and attributable mortality

 

Non-catheter-associated BSI

Catheter-associated BSI

Staphylococcus aureus

21.8%

17.7%

Coagulase negative staphylococci

16.5%

23.5%

Enterococci

13.5%

11.8%

Gram negative Bacilli

24.8%

44.1%

Candida species

18.8%

5.8%

  1. No significant difference in distribution of microbiological isolates between groups, chi-squared test: P = 0.14.
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