Table 1 Frequency of different pathogens within various clinical specimens collected from ICU patients, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Egypt, March 2018–February 2019
Name of organism | Total | N (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Urine | Blood | Wound swab | ||
Klebsiella spp. | 288 | 101 (35.06%) | 137 (47.56%) | 50 (17.38%) |
E.coli | 172 | 106 (61.62%) | 48 (27.91%) | 18 (10.47%) |
Acinetobacter spp. | 128 | 33 (25.78%) | 67 (52.34%) | 28 (21.88%) |
Pseudomonas spp. | 114 | 49 (42.98%) | 34 (29.82%) | 31 (27.20%) |
Proteus spp. | 23 | 5 (21.73%) | 6 (26.10%) | 12 (52.17%) |
Enterobacter spp. | 11 | 2 (18.18%) | 8 (72.72%) | 1 (9.10%) |
Coagulase negative staphylococci (CONS) | 161 | 20 (12.42%) | 139 (86.33%) | 2 (1.25%) |
Enterococcus spp. | 151 | 74 (49.00%) | 64 (42.38%) | 13 (8.62%) |
Candida spp. | 133 | 126 (94.73%) | 6 (4.51%) | 1 (%0.76) |
Staphylococcus aureus | 69 | 5 (7.26%) | 46 (66.66%) | 18 (26.08%) |
Non-hemolytic Streptococci | 18 | 6 (33.33%) | 11 (61.11%) | 1 (5.56%) |
Others | 12 | 3 (25.00%) | 8 (66.67%) | 1 (8.33%) |
Total | 1280 | 530 (41.41%) | 574 (44.84%) | 176 (13.75%) |