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Table 3 Diagnostic samples processed for microbiologic culture

From: Polymicrobial intensive care unit-acquired pneumonia: prevalence, microbiology and outcome

 

Monomicrobial pneumonia n = 215

Polymicrobial pneumonia n = 41

P value

Any lower respiratory tract sample, n (%)

213 (99)

41 (100)

0.54

 Tracheal aspirate or sputum, n (%)a

202 (94)

38 (93)

0.76

 Bronchoalveolar lavage, n (%)

41 (19)

9 (22)

0.68

Pleural fluid culture, n (%)

18 (8)

9 (22)

0.009

Blood culture, n (%)

143 (67)

34 (83)

0.037

  1. aSputum or tracheal aspirates were obtained depending on whether or not patients were intubated at onset of pneumonia. In some patients, a sample of both sputum and tracheal aspirate were processed for culture
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