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Intravenous Fosfomycin: An Assessment of Its Potential for Use in the Treatment of Systemic Infections in Canada

Table 1

The 20 most common bacterial pathogens isolated from patient samples in Canadian hospitals, CANWARD surveillance study, 2007–2016.

RankOrganismNumber of isolates% of total isolates

1Escherichia coli8,38719.5
2Staphylococcus aureus, MSSA7,14616.6
3Pseudomonas aeruginosa3,8649.0
4Streptococcus pneumoniae2,6266.1
5Klebsiella pneumoniae2,6246.1
6Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA1,9634.6
7Haemophilus influenzae1,7644.1
8Coagulase-negative staphylococci/Staphylococcus epidermidis1,6163.8
9Enterococcus faecalis1,2552.9
10Enterobacter cloacae1,0602.5
11Streptococcus agalactiae6891.6
12Stenotrophomonas maltophilia6691.6
13Klebsiella oxytoca6681.6
14Proteus mirabilis6471.5
15Serratia marcescens6471.5
16Streptococcus pyogenes6421.5
17Enterococcus, nonspeciated5821.4
18Enterococcus faecium4811.1
19Candida albicans4781.1
20Moraxella catarrhalis4681.1
Others4,72911.0
Total42,938

Adapted from [6].