Organisms isolated from the urinary tracts of children in the community and those with an underlying renal problem (1996–2000)
| Isolates from children in the community | Isolates from children with underlying problems | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organism | 1996 n=634 (22.5%) | 1997 n=551 (19.6%) | 1998 n=501 (17.8%) | 1999 n=564 (20.0) | 2000 n=575 (20.4%) | Total n=2815 (100%) | 1996 n=241 (18.3%) | 1997 n=244 (18.6%) | 1998 n=309 (23.5%) | 1999 n=274 (20.9%) | 2000 n=246 (18.7%) | Total n=1314 |
| Asterisks indicate that the organism is relatively more frequently isolated in that group at a significance level of 0.05* and 0.001** respectively. | ||||||||||||
| Escherichia coli | 348 | 321 | 339 | 377 | 389 | 1774 (63.0%)** | 99 | 101 | 114 | 120 | 96 | 530 (40.3%) |
| Proteus spp. | 52 | 33 | 22 | 23 | 33 | 163 (5.8%)* | 8 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 49 (3.7%) |
| Klebsiella spp. | 26 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 94 (3.3%) | 16 | 18 | 25 | 21 | 20 | 100 (7.6%)** |
| Enterobacter spp. | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 33 (1.2%) | 15 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 50 (3.8%)** |
| Morganella morganii | 7 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 25 (0.9%) | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 17 (1.3%) |
| Pseudomonas spp. | 13 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 59 (2.1%) | 33 | 24 | 38 | 23 | 24 | 142 (10.8%)** |
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0%) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 (0.7%)** |
| Other Gram negative bacilli | 10 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 29 (1.0%) | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 28 (2.1%)* |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 25 (0.9%) | 8 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 38 (2.9%)** |
| Other staphylococci | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 (0.6%) | 8 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 48 (3.7%)** |
| Enterococcus spp. | 143 | 129 | 74 | 101 | 95 | 542 (19.3%) | 39 | 50 | 65 | 59 | 53 | 266 (20.2%) |
| Non-faecal streptococci | 13 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 53 (1.9%) | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 37 (2.8%) |