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Table 3 Causative organisms in the BSI without VSB group as determined from blood cultures

From: Breakthrough viridans streptococcal bacteremia in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients receiving levofloxacin prophylaxis in a Japanese hospital

 

No of strains

Gram positive cocci

 

 Coagulase negative staphylococcus

19

  Enterococcus faecium

4

  Enterococcus faecalis

2

 MRSA

1

  Streptococcus agalactiae

1

 Unidentified GPC

2

Gram positive rods

 

  Corynebacterium striatum

10

  Corynebacterium jeikeium

1

  Corynebacterium spp.

1

 Unidentified GPR

2

Gram negative rods

 

  Escherichia coli

10

  Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2

  Klebsiella pneumoniae

1

  Campylobacter spp.

1

  Helicobacter cinaedi

1

Fungi

 

  Trichosporon asahii

1

  1. All the gram negative rods were resistant to levofloxacin except for Helicobacter cinaedi and Campylobacter spp. The standard drug susceptibility tests for Helicobacter cinaedi and Campylobacter spp. could not be performed in our institute
  2. BSI blood stream infection, VSB viridans streptococcal bacteremia, GPC gram-positive coccus, GPR gram-positive rod