bloodstream infection
Trends in antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infection isolates at a large urban hospital in Malawi (1998 2016): a surveillance study
... 19-year period. Our study reveals a decline in the incidence of bloodstream infection caused by all pathogens except Salmonella Typhi. This decrease has occurred concurrently with several major public ...
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Diagnosis of vascular catheter related bloodstream infection: a meta analysis
... Although the semiquantitative catheter segment culture is one of the least expensive tests for the microbiology laboratory to perform and the most frequently used method in hospital laboratories, it appears to be less ...
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Protein A Suppresses Immune Responses during Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection in Guinea Pigs
... causes bloodstream infection and disseminated infectious lesions in many different organ systems that can be clinically monitored as weight ...CFU, bloodstream infection is ...
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Bloodstream Infection in Neutropenic Cancer Patients Related to Short Term Nontunnelled Catheters Determined by Quantitative Blood Cultures, Differential Time to Positivity, and Molecular Epidemiological Typing with Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis
... catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) in cancer patients with febrile neutropenia remains ...of infection, are frequently absent during ...the bloodstream infection (BSI) does ...
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Newborn Antibiotic Exposures and Association With Proven Bloodstream Infection
... stewardship efforts associated with substantial recent AUR declines. 1,4 However, as a solitary measure, it is context free, incompletely informing benchmarking and improvement efforts. 4,19 Because AUR correlates with ...
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Adaptive immune response in human Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection
... of bloodstream infection is considerably important even in the face of several ...with bloodstream infection [26]. Blood sampling prior to infection would have allowed quantitation of ...
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Epidemiology and Outcome of Nosocomial and Community Onset Bloodstream Infection
... Anaerobic bloodstream infection episodes were also more likely to be associated with hypothermia and hypotension at the time the blood culture was ...
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Can bloodstream infection be predicted by nasal culture in hemodialysis patients?
... is bloodstream infection (BSI), which is the most common cause of hospitalization and the second most common cause of mortality in hemodialysis patients ...[4]. Infection acquisition in hemodialysis ...
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The role of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in the pathogenesis of bloodstream infection
... Patients with blood cultures positive for SA were noti- fied to the researcher by the microbiology laboratory. Many were unable to participate in the study because of inability to give consent resulting from illness ...
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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bloodstream infection in patients with hematologic malignancies: a retrospective study and in vitro activities of antimicrobial combinations
... Among 11,004 of admission episodes, a total of 31 pa- tients were treated for S. maltophilia BSI. The incidence rate of S. maltophilia BSI was 0.134 cases per 1,000 patient-days during the entire study period. All ...
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Manipulation of autophagy in phagocytes facilitates Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection
... The capacity for intracellular survival within phagocytes is likely a critical factor facilitating the dissemination of Staphylococcus aureus in the host. To date, the majority of work on S. aureus-phagocyte interactions ...
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Pretreatment gut microbiome predicts chemotherapy-related bloodstream infection
... Additional file 8: Receiving-operating characteristic (ROC) curves analyses of the most distinctive taxa, in fecal samples collected prior to treatment, to differentiate patients who dev[r] ...
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Vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus haemolyticus causing colonization and bloodstream infection
... haemolyticus obtained from patient 1 throat, stool, blood, and tracheal aspirate and nine epidemiologically unrelated patients patients 2 to 10; all nosocomial bloodstream isolates were [r] ...
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Circulating Inflammatory Mediators in Patients with Fever: Predicting Bloodstream Infection
... of infection and 133 (44%) had positive ...clinical infection focus. The presence of a clinical focus of infection also predicted positive blood cultures (P ⬍ ...of infection and culture ...
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Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis and Bloodstream Infection Due to Mycobacterium chimaera
... and the arterial graft did not show any signs of endocarditis or a vascular graft infection. The postmortem analysis of the spleen, liver, and kidneys revealed acute and chronic granulomatous inflammation with ...
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Multicenter Study To Evaluate Bloodstream Infection by Helicobacter cinaedi in Japan
... Two of the three patients in Toranomon Hospital have the same clinical problem, such as receiving dialysis for chronic renal failure. Interestingly, the first case of H. cinaedi bacter- emia in Japan involved a patient ...
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Vascular access for hemodialysis: current perspectives
... for bloodstream infection prevention in dialysis facilities are indicated by Atlanta Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in nine recommendations regarding continue efforts to reduce the use of a ...
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Concordance between European and US case definitions of healthcare-associated infections
... site infection (SSI), pneumonia (PN), bloodstream infection (BSI), catheter-related infec- tion (CRI) and urinary tract infection (UTI) and recom- mended their use in EU Member States ...
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Central venous Access device SeCurement And Dressing Effectiveness for peripherally inserted central catheters in adult acute hospital patients (CASCADE): a pilot randomised controlled trial
... Catheter-associated bloodstream infection (CABSI) is a serious health-care-associated infection that can potentially result in septic embolism, infective endocar- ditis, osteomyelitis, septic ...
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Long term use of selective digestive decontamination in an ICU highly endemic for bacterial resistance
... BSI: Bloodstream infection; CLABSI: Central line-associated bloodstream infection; CLSI: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; CT: Computed tomographic; CVC: Central venous catheter; ...
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