Bacteria isolated from blood cultures from neonates 2–28 days old, England and Wales, January 2006–March 2008
| Organism | Number | % Of all isolates |
|---|---|---|
| Gram+ | 2811 | 80.7 |
| CoNS | 1569 | 45.1 |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 460 | 13.2 |
| Enterococcus spp. | 243 | 7.0 |
| GBS | 230 | 6.6 |
| Non-pyogenic streptococci* | 169 | 4.9 |
| Micrococcus sp. | 30 | 0.9 |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 25 | 0.7 |
| Bacillus sp. | 17 | 0.5 |
| β-Haemolytic streptococci | 17 | 0.5 |
| Diphtheroids | 13 | 0.4 |
| Group A streptococci | 8 | 0.2 |
| Group D streptococci | 7 | 0.2 |
| Listeria monocytogenes | 3 | 0.1 |
| Other† | 20 | 0.6 |
| Gram− | 671 | 19.3 |
| Enterobacteriaceae‡ | 311 | 8.9 |
| Escherichia coli | 236 | 6.8 |
| Pseudomonas spp. | 66 | 1.9 |
| Acinetobacter spp. | 22 | 0.6 |
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 9 | 0.3 |
| Neisseria meningitidis | 5 | 0.1 |
| Haemophilus influenzae | 4 | 0.1 |
| Other§ | 18 | 0.5 |
| Total | 3482 | 100.0 |
* S viridans, S mitis, S salivarius, S oralis, S sanguinis group, S bovis, S milleri, S anginosus, S constellatus, S gordonii, S intermedius, Aerococcus spp.
↵† Lactococcus spp., Clostridium perfringens, Lactobacillus sp., Propionibacterium sp., Bacillus cereus, Gemella haemolysins, Stomatococcus mucilaginosus, Listeria sp., Micrococcus luteus, S anaerobic, Streptococcus group G.
↵‡ Enterobacter spp., Klebsiella spp., coliform, Serratia spp., Citrobacter spp., Proteus spp., Morganella spp., Kluyvera sp., Salmonella monschaui, Yersinia enterocolitica.
↵§ Moraxella spp., Neisseria sp., Haemophilus parainfluenzae, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Achromobacter sp., Alcaligenes faecalis, Bordetella bronchiseptica, Burkholderia cepacia, Haemophilus sp., Pasteurella multocida, Roseomonas sp., Sphingomonas paucimobilis.
CoNS, coagulase-negative staphylococci; GBS, group B streptococcus.