Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections

State of the Art

Engineering out the Risk of Infection with Urinary Catheters

Dennis G. Maki*  and Paul A. Tambyah†

Author affiliations: *University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; †National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore

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Table 1

Microbial pathogens causing nosocomial catheter-associated urinary tract infections in U.S. acute-care hospitals, 1990-92 (15)

Pathogens	Hospitalwide (% of total)	Intensive care units (% of total)
Escherichia coli	26	18
Enterococci	16	13
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	12	11
Klebsiella and Enterobacter spp.	12	13
Candida spp.	9	25

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