TABLE 4 Pre-operative colonisation and ventilator-associated respiratory infection in lung transplant recipients

	Donor colonised	Donor not colonised	p-value	Recipient colonised	Recipient not colonised	p-value
VAT
Unilateral transplant	17	21	0.73	20	19	0.91
Bilateral transplant	21	25	0.75	19	29	0.33
VAP
Unilateral transplant	6	3	0.52	0	4	>0.99
Bilateral transplant	14	17	0.84	17	14	>0.99
Hospital mortality	20	10	0.07	19	11	0.21

Data are presented as %, unless otherwise stated. VAT: ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis; VAP: ventilator-associated pneumonia.