Volume 15, Number 1—January 2009
Dispatch
Clonal Multidrug-Resistant Corynebacterium striatum Strains, Italy
Floriana Campanile, Edoardo Carretto, Daniela Barbarini, Annalisa Grigis, Marco Falcone, Antonio Goglio, Mario Venditti, and Stefania Stefani
Table 2
Clinical diagnoses for 36 patients with Corynebacterium striatum infection, Italy, 2005–2007*
| Specimens | No. isolates |
Diagnosis | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | From ICU | From non-ICU wards | ||
| BAL fluid, pleural fluid, blood, tracheal aspirate | 8 | 7 | 1 | Ventilator-associated pneumonia |
| BAL fluid | 2 | 2 | 0 | Ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis |
| BAL fluid, lung biopsy | 2 | 0 | 2 | Pneumonia |
| Blood, CVC tip | 1 | 1 | 0 | CVC-related bacteremia |
| CVC tip | 1 | 1 | 0 | CVC exit-site cellulites |
| Blood, surgical wound | 5 | 1 | 4 | Sternal wound cellulites and infections |
| Tracheal aspirate | 10 | 10 | 0 | Ventilator-associated respiratory tract colonization |
| CVC tip | 6 | 4 | 2 | CVC-exit site colonization |
| Urine |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Urinary tract catheter colonization |
| Total | 36 | 26 | 10 | |
*ICU, intensive care unit; BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; CVC, central venous catheter.
