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Table 2 Distribution of the most commonly pathogens of all detected relevant pathogens in 23,085 events of BSI (nepisode: number of episodes. % of all episodes in each column); for a definition of “event” and “episode” see main text

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

Pathogen

overall

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

nepisode = 28,366

%

nepisode = 4845

%

nepisode = 5242

%

nepisode = 5722

%

nepisode = 6573

%

nepisode = 5,985

%

E. coli

7207

25.4

1133

23.4

1343

25.6

1490

26.0

1678

25.5

1563

26.1

S. aureus

4297

15.2

759

15.7

832

15.9

859

15.0

1005

15.3

842

14.1

S. epidermidis

2309

8.1

491

10.1

411

7.8

458

8.0

494

7.5

455

7.6

K. pneumonia

1302

4.6

235

4.9

255

4.9

253

4.4

275

4.2

284

4.7

E. faecalis

1250

4.4

222

4.6

231

4.4

263

4.6

268

4.1

266

4.4

E. faecium

1185

4.2

259

5.3

239

4.6

234

4.1

251

3.8

202

3.4

Candida spp.

760

2.7

137

2.8

181

3.5

176

3.1

158

2.4

109

1.8

P. mirabilis

636

2.2

89

1.8

105

2.0

120

2.1

169

2.6

153

2.6

P. aeruginosa

489

1.7

63

1.3

78

1.5

93

1.6

136

2.1

119

2.0

S. pneumoniae

461

1.6

66

1.4

77

1.5

91

1.6

137

2.1

90

1.5

S. hominis

447

1.6

123

2.5

60

1.1

80

1.4

93

1.4

91

1.5

other

8023

28.3

1268

26.2

1430

27.3

1605

28.0

1909

29.0

1811

30.2