bloodstream infections
Genetic relatedness and risk factor analysis of ampicillin resistant and high level gentamicin resistant enterococci causing bloodstream infections in Tanzanian children
... constitute a therapeutic problem as the commonly used treatment regimens at the hospital (ampicillin and gen- tamicin or penicillin and chloramphenicol) are insuffi- cient for infections caused by ...
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STAPHYLOCOCCAL BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN – ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND BIOFILM FORMATION
... and community-acquired bloodstream infections in children. They are often resistant to antibiotics and the ability to form biofilm is one of the important virulence factors. Biofilms are associated with ...
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Genotypic Diversity of Anaerobic Isolates from Bloodstream Infections
... cause bloodstream infection, in decreasing order of frequency, are Bacteroides fragilis, other Bacteroides species, Clostridium species, anaerobic gram-positive cocci, Fu- sobacterium nucleatum, and Prevotella ...
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Treatment of bloodstream infections in ICUs
... of bloodstream infections is required and is based on previ- ous knowledge and guidelines, rapid microbiological identification, adequate source control and adminis- tration of proper antimicrobials at the ...
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Trends in Antifungal Susceptibility of Candida spp Isolated from Pediatric and Adult Patients with Bloodstream Infections: SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, 1997 to 2000
... From 1 January 1997 through 31 December 2000, 2,047 bloodstream infections (BSIs) due to Candida spp. were reported from hospitals in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe participating in ...
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Original Article Predictive Value of IL-6, PCT, NLR, and CRP in differentiating gram-negative bacterial bloodstream infections from gram-positive bacterial and fungal bloodstream infections in febrile patients
... Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SP- SS) 22.0 statistical software package (SPSS, Chicago) was used for all statistical analyses. First, the normality of data was tested. Data with a normal distribution are ...
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Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of central venous catheters treated with Minocycline and Rifampicin in preventing bloodstream infections in intensive care patients
... CVC-associated bloodstream infection, i.e. bloodstream infection relating to indwelling ...2.1 bloodstream infections per 1,000 CVC days are ...CVC-associated bloodstream ...
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International Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections Due toCandida Species: Frequency of Occurrence and In Vitro Susceptibilities to Fluconazole, Ravuconazole, and Voriconazole of Isolates Collected from 1997 through 1999 in the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program
... Although innate or acquired resistance to available antifun- gal agents is now recognized among pathogenic fungi, partic- ularly the Candida species, the true extent of the resistance problem among fungi causing ...
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Trends in paediatric bloodstream infections at a South African referral hospital
... This study has several limitations, most importantly the possibility that some healthcare-associated BSI (re- admission within 30 days of hospital discharge) may have been misclassified as community-acquired, owing to ...
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Rare bacterial isolates causing bloodstream infections in Ethiopian patients with cancer
... colonization or serious infections in compromised patients. In this study, we isolated this organism from a 24-year-old female patient with acute lymphocytic leukemia. Another study in France also isolated ...
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Bloodstream infections caused by multidrug resistant gram negative bacteria: epidemiological, clinical and microbiological features
... previous infections, comorbidities, presented symptoms, possible sources and risk factors for bacteremia, use of antibiotics in the previous 6 months, empirical and culture-guided therapy and clinical outcome in ...
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Epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections after renal transplantation from donation after cardiac death in a Chinese hospital: a case series analysis
... fungal infections, has also been fre- quently reported from kidney recipients from DCD, characterized by Gram-negative predominant donor- derived infection, with higher crude mortality and graft loss than those ...
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Clinical and inflammatory response to bloodstream infections in octogenarians
... However, perhaps because of this study and others like it [13-15], it is thought that older patients are less likely than younger patients to mount a febrile response to infection or bac[r] ...
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Bloodstream infections at a tertiary level paediatric hospital in South Africa
... The medical microbiology database of the National Health Laboratory Service NHLS was accessed, and 2084 positive blood culture results of children hospitalised at RCWMCH during the study[r] ...
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The distinct category of healthcare associated bloodstream infections
... Results: A total of 7,712 patients were included; 2,132 (28%) had HA-BSI, 2,492 (32%) HCA-BSI, and 3,088 (40%) had CA-BSI. Patients with CA-BSI were significantly younger and less likely to have co-morbid medical ...
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Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections in Children
... catheter-associated bloodstream infection ...catheter-associated bloodstream infection us- ing a differential of 180 min was only 61% with a specificity of 94% ...
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Clinical Nurse Leader as Outcomes Manager in the Emergency Department: Redesigning the Triage Process to Reduce the Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) Rate
... associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most common type of hospital-acquired infection among infants in the NICU (Garber & Puopolo, ...
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Significance of coagulase negative Staphylococcus from blood cultures: persisting problems and partial progress in resource constrained settings
... range of 31-75 years whereas 119 were pediatric (0-12 yrs) with CoNS positive blood cultures. Frequency of CoNS isolates was higher in pediatric department (38.7%), followed by intensive care units (31.3%), medical wards ...
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Spectrum of non-fermenting gram negative bacilli isolated from patients with blood stream infections in a tertiary care hospital in North India
... The present study was undertaken to evaluate the prevalence of Non-fermenting gram negative bacilli in causing bloodstream infections especially in hospitalized patients and to know their antibiotic ...
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Mortality and molecular epidemiology associated with extended-spectrum β-lactamase production in <em>Escherichia coli</em> from bloodstream infection
... Burden of antimicrobial resistance in European hospitals: excess mortality and length of hospital stay associated with bloodstream infections due to Escherichia coli resistant[r] ...
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