Research Article

Bacterial Etiology of Bloodstream Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns from a Tertiary Care Hospital in Malé, Maldives

Table 1

Trends in the organisms isolated from the culture-positive patient samples.

OrganismsBacterial isolate (%)Paediatric (n = 130)Adult (n = 341)
Male (n = 80)Female (n = 50)Male (n = 198)Female (n = 143)

Gram-positive338 (71.8)68 (85.0)39 (78.0)136 (68.7)95 (66.4)
Gram-negative133 (28.2)12 (15.0)11 (22)62 (31.3)48 (33.6)