Bacterial Isolates and Antibiotic Sensitivity among Gambian Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition

Table 2

Isolated bacterial pathogens and sites of infection.

Bacterial isolates	Site of isolated pathogens				Total
	Blood	Urine^a	Skin^b,c	Ear^d
Gram positive
Staphylococcus aureus			4	2	6
Coagulase negative staphylococci	19				19
Streptococcus pneumonia	4				4
Group A Streptococci			1		1
Group F Streptococci	1				1
Other Streptococci				1	1
Bacillus species	2				2
Gram negative
Nontyphoidal salmonellae	5				5
Haemophilus influenzae (nontype b)	2				2
Escherichia coli	3	10			13
Klebsiella pneumonia		1	1		2
Klebsiella species		2	1	1	4
Micrococci	1				1
Enterobacter cloacae		1			1
Proteus species		1	3	5	9
Providencia alkali		1			1
Pseudomonas aeruginosa		1	1	3	5
Other Pseudomonas species				1	1
Unspecified	1				1
Total	38	17	11	13	79

^aOne child had more than one organism isolated from the urine.
^bPatients with skin isolates had extensive weeping dermatosis.
^cFour of the seven children with skin isolates had polymicrobial infection.
^dSix of the eight children with ear isolates had polymicrobial infection.