Research Article
Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Occult Pulmonary Infection in Elderly Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Table 1
The distribution of pathogenic bacteria detected from the patients in OP and NOP groups.
| Pathogens | OP () | NOP () |
| Gram-negative bacteria | 134 (53.8%) | 198 (61.1%) | Klebsiella pneumoniae | 34 (13.7%) | 69 (21.3%) | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 39 (15.7%) | 55 (17.0%) | Acinetobacter baumannii | 36 (14.5%) | 28 (8.6%) | Escherichia coli | 9 (3.6%) | 21 (6.5%) | Enterobacter cloacae | 0 (0.0%) | 18 (5.6%) | Pseudomonas maltophilia | 16 (6.4%) | 7 (2.2%) | Gram-positive bacteria | 79 (31.7%) | 80 (24.7%) | Streptococcus pneumoniae | 30 (12.0%) | 23 (7.1%) | Staphylococcus aureus | 22 (8.8%) | 30 (9.3%) | Staphylococcus epidermidis | 18 (7.2%) | 16 (4.9%) | Hemolytic Staphylococcus | 9 (3.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | Enterococcus | 0 (0.0%) | 11 (3.4%) | Fungi | 36 (14.5%) | 46 (14.2%) | Candida albicans | 19 (7.6%) | 33 (10.2%) | Candida tropicalis | 12 (4.8%) | 11 (3.4%) | Others | 5 (2.0%) | 2 (0.6%) |
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