Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Dispatch
Rapid Detection of ESBL-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Blood Cultures
Laurent Dortet, Laurent Poirel, and Patrice Nordmann
Table 1
Origin of gram-negative bacilli identified from blood cultures using rapid detection methods in bacterial blood cultures*
| Hospital department | No. gram-negative bacilli | No. (%) Enterobacteriaceae |
No. (%) nonfermenting bacilli | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Escherichia coli | Other | ESBL-negative | ESBL-positive | |||
| Cardiology | 5 | 4 (80) | 2 (50) | 2 (50) | 4 (100) | 0 | 1 (20) |
| Digestive surgery | 9 | 8 (89) | 6 (75) | 2 (25) | 6 (75) | 2 (25) | 1 (11) |
| Orthopedic surgery | 3 | 3 (100) | 2 (67) | 1 (33) | 3 (100) | 0 | 0 |
| Endocrinology | 2 | 2 (100) | 0 | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 0 | 0 |
| Gerontology | 9 | 7 (78) | 3 (43) | 4 (57) | 7 (100) | 0 | 2 (22) |
| Gynecology-obstetric | 3 | 2 (67) | 0 | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 0 | 1 (33) |
| Hepato-gastroenterology | 20 | 18 (90) | 8 (44) | 10 (56) | 15 (83) | 3 (17) | 2 (10) |
| Emergency | 40 | 37 (93) | 30 (81) | 7 (19) | 32 (86) | 5 (14) | 3 (8) |
| Infectious diseases | 28 | 25 (89) | 16 (64) | 9 (36) | 17 (68) | 8 (32) | 3 (11) |
| Nephrology | 28 | 21 (75) | 8 (38) | 13 (62) | 11 (52) | 10 (48) | 7 (25) |
| Neurology | 8 | 8 (100) | 5 (63) | 3 (38) | 8 (100) | 0 | 0 |
| Pediatric unit | 2 | 2 (100) | 2 (100) | 0 | 2 (100) | 0 | 0 |
| Pneumology | 4 | 3 (75) | 2 (67) | 1 (33) | 2 (67) | 1 (33) | 1 (25) |
| Intensive care unit | 67 | 57 (85) | 24 (42) | 33 (58) | 42 (74) | 15 (26) | 10 (15) |
| Rhumatology | 3 | 2 (67) | 2 (100) | 0 | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 1 (33) |
| Urology |
14 |
12 (86) |
8 (67) |
4 (33) |
10 (83) |
2 (17) |
2 (14) |
| Total | 245 | 211 (86) | 118 (56) | 93 (44) | 164 (78) | 47 (22) | 34 (14) |
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