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Table 1 Number of blood cultures, patients and patient demographics per year. BCs: blood cultures

From: The epidemiology of bloodstream infections and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in Thuringia, Germany: a five-year prospective, state-wide surveillance study (AlertsNet)

Year

Blood cultures

Patients

nBC

Negative

Positive

Contaminated

n

Age

Sex

Mean/Median (Q1; Q3) [years]

(male, %)**

BCs

nBC (%)

BCs

nBC (%)

BCs

nBC (%)

2015

50,452

41,852

(83.0)

7296

(14.4)

1304

(2.6)

12,644

63.8

70 (55;79)

57.2

2016

60,483

50,067

(82.8)

8226

(13.6)

2190

(3.6)

18,170

64.7

72 (57;80)

63.0

2017

63,219

51,800

(81.9)

9309

(14.7)

2110

(3.4)

18,742

65.5

73 (58;81)

61.2

2018

83,790

70,938

(84.7)

10,755

(12.8)

2097

(2.5)

21,820

66.3

72 (59;81)

57.2

2019

85,340

73,710

(86.4)

9760

(11.4)

1870

(2.2)

20,291

66.9

72 (59;81)

57.9

total

343,284

288,367

(84.0)

45,346

(13.2)

9571

(2.8)

82,527*

65.2

72 (57;80)

58.7

  1. *For total number of patients each patient was only counted once during the 5-year period, **for patients for whom the sex was known