Table 2 Blood cultures and bloodstream infections
From: Bacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in pediatric liver and kidney transplant recipients
All liver and kidney transplant recipients N = 85 | Liver and combined liver-kidney transplant recipients N = 54 | Kidney transplant recipients N = 31 | |
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Number of analyzed blood culturea (n of individual recipients (% of the cohort)) | 883 72 (85%) | 735 47 (87%) | 148 25 (81%) |
Results of blood cultures | |||
- Positive | 59 (7%) | 48 (7%) | 11 (7%) |
- Contamination | 19 (2%) | 16 (2%) | 3 (2%) |
- Negative | 805 (91%) | 671 (91%) | 134 (91%) |
Bloodstream infectionsb (n of individual recipients (% of the cohort)) | 29 19 (22%) | 20 12 (22%) | 9 7 (23%) |
Secondary BSI | |||
- Primary (no previous cultivation (% of all BSI)) | 20 (69%) | 16 (80%) | 4 (44%) |
- Secondary to cultivation in (% of all BSI) | 9 (31%) | 4 (20%) | 5 (56%) |
- Urine | 5 | – | 5 |
- Drains of the abdomen | 3 | 3 | – |
- Sputum | 1 | 1 | – |
Incidence rate of first BSI per 100 recipients per month in the first year post-transplantation | 1.91 (95% CI: 1.12–3.08) | 2.1 (95% CI: 1.08–3.74) | 1.61 (95% CI: 0.61–3.54) |
Incidence rate of first BSI for all liver- and kidney transplant recipients | Per 100 recipients per month | ||
- 1st month | 6.47 (95% CI: 2.45–14.17) | ||
- 2nd-6th month | 2.55 (95% CI: 1.26–4.66) | ||
- 7th–12th month | 0.45 (95% CI: 0.09–1.45) | ||
- 1st year | 1.91 (95% CI: 1.12–3.08) | ||