Research Article
Bacterial Etiology of Bloodstream Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Malé, Maldives
Table 2
Distribution of organism isolated from blood culture samples during the two years.
| | Bacterial isolates | Number (%) | Year | | 2016 | 2017 |
| | Streptococcus spp. | 23 (4.9) | 14 (5.9) | 9 (3.9) | | Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) | 246 (52.2) | 128 (53.6) | 118 (50.9) | | Staphylococcus aureus | 62 (13.2) | 38 (15.9) | 24 (10.3) | | Enterococcus spp. | 7 (1.5) | 3 (1.3) | 4 (1.7) | | Klebsiella spp. | 63 (13.4) | 25 (10.5) | 38 (16.4) | | Acinetobacter spp. | 7 (1.5) | 4 (1.7) | 3 (1.3) | | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 5 (1.1) | 3 (1.3) | 2 (0.9) | | Pseudomonas spp. | 12 (2.5) | 4 (1.7) | 8 (3.4) | | Escherichia coli | 42 (8.9) | 17 (7.1) | 25 (10.8) | | Salmonella spp. | 4 (0.8) | 3 (1.3) | 1 (0.4) | | Total | 471 | 239 | 232 |
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