Research Article
Pediatric Patients with Intravascular Devices: Polymicrobial Bloodstream Infections and Risk Factors
Table 2
Monomicrobial and polymicrobial BSIs.
| Pathogens | Monomicrobial BSI (%) | Polymicrobial BSI (%)a | Total (%) |
| Gram-positive bacteria | 60 (72.3) | 53 (51.5) | 113 (60.8) | a-hemolytic streptococci (viridans) | 1 | 2 | | Streptococcus pneumoniae | — | 1 | | Coagulase-negative staphylococci | 42 | 21 | | Staphylococcus aureus | 3 | 4 | | Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | 3 | 1 | | Enterococcus sp. | 7 | 21 | | Bacillus sp. | 4 | 3 | | Gram-negative bacteria | 15 (18.1) | 44 (42.7) | 59 (31.7) | Enterobacter Klebsiella Serratia group | 9 | 20 | | Escherichia coli | 1 | 3 | | Pseudomonas sp. | 1 | 8 | | Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 1 | 3 | | Actinobacter sp. | 3 | 5 | | Other Gram negatives | — | 5 | | Yeast | 8 (9.6) | 6 (5.8) | 14 (7.5) | Candida albicans | 1 | — | | Candida nonalbicans | 7 | 6 | |
| Total | 83 (100) | 103 (100) | 186 (100) |
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aTotal of 103 pathogens in 42 polymicrobial BSIs (33.6% of 125 BSIs).
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