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Table 1 Microbial etiologies of ICU-acquired urinary tract infections, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

From: Intensive care unit-acquired urinary tract infections in a regional critical care system

Organism

Occurrence (%)a

Escherichia coli

87 (23)

Candida albicans

74 (20)

Enterococcus species

57 (15)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

34 (10)

Candida glabrata

20 (5)

Klebsiella species

20 (5)

Coagulase-negative staphylococci

18 (5)

Proteus mirabilis

17 (5)

Candida otherb

16 (4)

Enterobacter species

10 (3)

Citrobacter species

5 (1)

Staphylococcus aureus

4 (1)

Streptococcus species

3 (1)

Otherc

10 (3)

  1. aThe number of isolates (n = 375) exceeds the number of patients with ICU-acquired UTI because some patients had more than one UTI episode or had polymicrobial infection.
  2. bCandida krusei (1), C. lusitaniae (1), C. tropicalis (4), Candida not speciated (10).
  3. cIncludes Lactobacillus species (1), Proteus penneri (1), Serratia marcescens (2), Morganella morganii (2), Providencia rettgeri (1), Hafnia alvei (2) and Staphylococcus saphrophyticus (1).
  4. ICU, intensive care unit; UTI, urinary tract infection.