Clinical Study
Prediction of Outcome from Community-Acquired Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in Tertiary-Care University Hospital in a Developing Country
Table 2
Microorganisms isolated from blood cultures in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock according to outcome.
| | Microorganism | All patients
() | Survivors
(, 48.4%) | Nonsurvivors
(, 51.6%) | value |
| | Blood culture positive, (%) | 63 (34.2) | 22 (24.7) | 41 (43.2) | 0.008 | | Gram-positive, (%) | 49 (26.6) | 18 (20.2) | 31 (32.6) | 0.36 | | Gram-negative, (%) | 14 (7.6) | 4 (4.5) | 10 (10.5) | | | Gram-positive, (%) | | | | | | Staphylococcus aureus | 29 (15.8) | 12 (13.5) | 17 (17.9) | 0.33 | | Streptococcus pneumoniae | 11 (6.0) | 4 (4.5) | 7 (7.4) | | | Enterococcus species | 6 (3.3) | 1 (1.1) | 5 (5.3) | | | Listeria monocytogenes | 2 (1.1) | 1 (1.1) | 1 (1.1) | | | Streptococcus viridans | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.1) | | | Gram-negative, (%) | | | | | | Escherichia coli | 6 (3.3) | 2 (2.2) | 4 (4.2) | | | Klebsiella pneumoniae | 3 (1.6) | 1 (1.1) | 2 (2.1) | | | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 3 (1.6) | 1 (1.1) | 2 (2.1) | | | Proteus mirabilis | 2 (1.1) | 0 (0) | 2 (2.1) | |
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