Clinical Characteristics and Laboratory Identification of Aerococcus Infections: An Australian Tertiary Centre Perspective

Table 2

Outcomes: UTI versus “asymptomatic bacteriuria.”

	UTI ()	Colonized ()	value
Clinical and Laboratory Parameters
Presence of fever, ≥37.9°C or hypothermia, <35.5°C (, %)	2	6	0.68
White cell count, ×10^9 per litre (median, IQR)	8.9	9	0.67
Neutrophil count, ×10^9 per litre (median, IQR)	6.1	6.2	0.37
CRP, mg/L (median, IQR)	16.5	17	0.97
Polymicrobial growth in urine (, %)	4 (28.6)	10 (38.5)	0.73
Antimicrobial treatment (, %)	11 (78.6)	17	0.71
Intravenous only (, %)	2 (18.2)	1 (5.9)	0.54
Oral only (, %)	2 (18.2)	12 (70.6)	0.018
Both (, %)	7 (63.6)	4 (23.5)	0.052
Penicillin use (, %)	4 (36.4)	11 (64.7)	0.25
Other (, %)	11 (100.0)	9 (52.9)	0.010
Duration of treatment, days (median, IQR)	9 (0.8–12)	4 (0–11.5)	0.21
Outcomes
ICU admission (, %)	0 (0.0)	2 (7.7)	0.53
Mortality, 3 months (, %)	2	5	1.0
Complications (, %)	0 (0.0)	1 (3.8)	1.0

CRP: C-reactive protein, ICU: intensive care unit, IQR: interquartile range, UTI: urinary tract infection; Data was not available for , and subjects; was initiated in 11 subjects with UTI and 17 subjects with colonisation.