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Table 4 Microbiology of chronic infection

From: Etiology and characteristics of patients with bronchiectasis in Taiwan: a cohort study from 2002 to 2016

Repeated Sputum culture

n = 2255

Negative

1685 (75.0%)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

143 (6.3%)

NTM

107 (4.7%)

Klebsiella pneumoniae

61 (2.7%)

Staphylococcus aureus

44 (2.0%)

Haemophilus influenzae

29 (1.3%)

Acinetobacter baumannii

22 (1.0%)

Fungus

18 (0.8%)

Haemophilus parainfluenzae

14 (0.6%)

Escherichia coli

14 (0.6%)

Streptococcus pneumoniae

10 (0.4%)

Acinetobacter baumannii-MDR strain/PDR strain

11 (0.5%)

Tuberculosis

10 (0.4%)

K pneumoniae-ESBL strain

8 (0.4%)

Other

79 (3.5%)