External Ventricular Drain Infections: Risk Factors and Outcome

Table 2

Microbial culture results of episodes of EVD infection.

Organism	(day of CSF sampling in current EVD)
Enterococcus spp.
E. faecium	2 (day 1, 3)
Unclassified	1 (day 6)
Klebsiella pneumoniae	1 (day 5)
Staphylococcus spp.
Staphylococcus hominis	1 (day 10)
Staphylococcus capitis	1 (day 11)
Staphylococcus haemolyticus	1 (day 6)
Staphylococcus epidermidis	7 (day 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 8, 11)
E. coli	1 (day 7)
Micrococcus luteus	1 (day 6)