Abstract: | Objective To investigate the distribution and drug resistance of pathogens in blood cultures in our hospital from 2014 to 2018, and provide evidence for clinical diagnosis and treatment of bloodstream infections. Methods The bacteria was identified by VITEK2 Compact and the VITEK MS mass spectrometry instrument. The antimicrobial susceptibility test was carried out by VITEK 2 Compact and the disk diffusion method. The drug susceptibility results were analyzed by WHONET 5.6 software. Results A total of 11398 strains of bacteria were detected in blood cultures during the past five years, of which 54.7% was Gram-negative bacteria, 38.6% was Gram-positive bacteria and 6.7% was fungi. The top five isolates were E.coli (2517 strains, 22.1%), coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (1951 strains, 17.1%), K. pneumoniae (1572 strains, 13.8%), S. aureus (698 strains, 6.1%) and E. faecium (570 strains, 5.0%), respectively. In the past five years, the resistance rate of E. coli to imipenem increased from 1.1% to 5.0%, the resistance rate of K. pneumoniae to imipenem increased from 15.7% to 56.1%, A. baumannii with an average resistance rate of 88.1% to imipenem, the average resistance rate of P. aeruginosa to imipenem was 20.8%, and the resistance rate to piperacillin/tazobactam, ciprofloxacin and amikacin was below 10%. The detection rates of methicillin-resistant S. aureus in blood culture from 2014 to 2018 were 42.6%, 50.0%, 40.4%, 47.5% and 35.1%, respectively, with an average detection rate of 42.6%. Conclusions Gram-negative bacteria were the main pathogens in blood cultures in our hospital. The drug resistance of bacteria showed an overall upward trend, and the detection rate of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae increased significantly, which brought great challenges to clinical drug |