Procalcitonin Levels in Gram-Positive, Gram-Negative, and Fungal Bloodstream Infections

Table 3

PCT values corresponding to pathogens isolated from single patients with monomicrobial or polymicrobial bloodstream infections.

Bloodstream infection from	Pathogen	PCT values (ng/mL)
Gram-positives	Abiotrophia defectiva	1.31
	Capnocytophaga canimorsus	0.87
	Capnocytophaga sputigena	6.63
	Clostridium paraputrificum	4.52
	Enterococcus avium	3.54
	Kytococcus sedentarius	0.40
	Peptostreptococcus spp.	0.25
	Streptococcus anginosus	0.21
	Streptococcus gordonii	0.45
Gram-negatives	Acinetobacter junii	1.70
	Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron	8.49
	Burkholderia gladioli	0.42
	Fusobacterium necrophorum	2.24
	Fusobacterium nucleatum	0.38
	Haemophilus influenzae	0.48
	Moraxella catarrhalis	0.44
	Moraxella nonliquefaciens	0.98
	Neisseria meningitidis	24.17
	Providencia rettgeri	0.90
	Pseudomonas putida	2.49
Fungi	Candida glabrata	0.66
	Candida krusei	0.72
	Candida pelliculosa	1.06
	Candida tropicalis	0.13
Polymicrobial	Enterococcus faecalis and Serratia marcescens	15.5
	Enterococcus faecalis and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	12.3
	Enterococcus faecium and Klebsiella pneumoniae	19.5
	Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii	5.61
	Staphylococcus aureus and Proteus mirabilis	170.9