Manifestations and Outcomes of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Serious Infection in the Emergency Department

Table 3

Blood culture results for septic patients with and without Parkinson’s disease.

Bacterial strain	Non-PD	PD	P value
	(n = 2,400)	(n = 1,200)
Gram-negative	208 (8.7%)	103 (8.6%)	0.215
Escherichia coli	115 (4.8%)	60 (5.0%)
Klebsiella pneumoniae	39 (1.6%)	15 (1.3%)
Proteus mirabilis	5 (0.2%)	12 (1.0%)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	8 (0.3%)	3 (0.3%)
Salmonella enterica	5 (0.2%)	1 (0.1%)
Other	5 (0.2%)	12 (1.0%)
Gram-positive	111 (4.6%)	57 (4.8%)
Staphylococcus aureus	35 (1.5%)	14 (1.2%)
Staphylococcus spp.	32 (1.3%)	12 (1.0%)
Streptococcus spp.	34 (1.4%)	27 (2.3%)
Streptococcus pneumonia	3 (0.1%)	2 (0.2%)
Other	8 (0.3%)	9 (0.8%)
Anaerobic bacterium	11 (0.5%)	0 (0%)
Fungus	1 (0.0%)	1 (0.1%)

PD: Parkinson’s disease