Volume 17, Number 10—October 2011
Research
Bacterial Causes of Empyema in Children, Australia, 2007–2009
Table 2
Bacteria isolated by culture of blood and pleural fluid samples and by PCR of pleural fluid samples from children with empyema, Australia, 2007–2009*
Organism | No. (%) positive samples | ||
---|---|---|---|
Blood culture, n = 152 | Pleural fluid | ||
Culture, n = 160 | PCR, n = 145 | ||
Streptococcus pneumoniae | 19 (12.5) | 12 (7.5) | 74 (51) |
S. pyogenes | 3 (2.0) | 14 (8.8) | NA |
S. milleri | NA | 4 (2.5) | NA |
MSSA | 1 (0.7) | 11 (6.8) | 6 (4.1) |
MRSA | 1 (0.7) | 6 (3.8) | 7 (4.8) |
Coagulase-negative staphylococci | 4 (2.6) | 2 (1.3) | NA |
Haemophilus influenzae | 1 (0.7) | NA | 4 (2.8) |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis | NA | 1 (0.6 | NA |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa | NA | 1 (0.6) | NA |
Mycoplasma pneumoniae | NA | NA | 1 (0.7) |
Chlamydia pneumoniae | NA | NA | 1 (0.7) |
Other† | 4 (2.6) | 4 (2.5) | NA
*NA, not applicable; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant S.s aureus. |
*NA, not applicable; MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant S.s aureus.
†Blood cultures: 1 isolate each of Streptococcus sanguinis; Staphylococcus hominis (from a specimen in which S. aureus was also isolated); Neisseria meningitidis; and Actinomyces naeslundii. Pleural fluid: 1 isolate each of Streptococcus oralis; Staphylococcus cohni; Eikenella corrodens; and Bacteroides fragilis (the last 2 from the same specimen, from which S. milleri was also isolated). Both MRSA and MSSA were cultured from 1 pleural fluid specimen.