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The accuracy of CRP to detect bacteraemia in Malawian children [PDF]
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Despite improvements in recent years, child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains alarmingly high, largely due to potentially life threathening infections such as bacteraemia and malaria.
Marijke Dorhout Mees +6 more
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Burkholderia vietnamiensis Bacteraemia After Lung Transplantation in a Patient With Diffuse Panbronchiolitis [PDF]
Respirology Case ReportsLung transplant recipients are at risk of opportunistic infections because of immunosuppression. We report a case of Burkholderia vietnamiensis bacteraemia that occurred 3 months after bilateral lung transplantation for diffuse panbronchiolitis ...
Taiki Ryo +2 more
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Splenic macrophages as the source of bacteraemia during pneumococcal pneumonia
EBioMedicine, 2021 Background: Severe community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia is commonly associated with bacteraemia. Although it is assumed that the bacteraemia solely derives from pneumococci entering the blood from the lungs it is unknown if other organs are ...
David Carreño +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 This study aimed to evaluate the differences in clinical characteristics and impact of carbapenem resistance (CR) on outcomes between Acinetobacter baumannii (Ab) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) bacteraemia.
Chan Mi Lee +19 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives Domestic epidemiological studies are needed to ascertain the disease burden of bacteraemia in individual countries. This study aimed to evaluate the domestic trends in paediatric and adult bacteraemia in Japan.Setting Laboratory-based ...
Nobuaki Matsunaga +4 more
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Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia at a tertiary children's hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen in paediatric patients with bloodstream infections. The epidemiology of S. aureus bacteraemia, however, has not been well documented in children in South Africa.
Reené Naidoo +3 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022 IntroductionMultiple drug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial (MDR-GNB) bacteraemia poses a serious threat to patients in hospital. Infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) patients are a vulnerable population to infectious complications during hospitalization ...
Di Wu +9 more
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BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 2021 Objective Multiple factors predispose patients with cirrhosis to sepsis and/or bacteraemia and this has a high mortality rate. Within different geographical regions there are marked differences in the prevalence of infection with multidrug-resistant ...
Amy L Johnson +5 more
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Annals of Medicine, 2023 Background Bacteraemia can co-occur with COVID-19. The present study aimed to determine the cut-off value for C-reactive protein (CRP) and the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) for predicting bacteraemia in patients with COVID-19.Methods Patients ...
Yoshitaka Ueda +3 more
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High cell-free DNA predicts fatal outcome among Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia patients with intensive care unit treatment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 IntroductionAmong patients with bacteraemia or sepsis the plasma cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) biomarker has prognostic value and Pitt bacteraemia scores predict outcome.
Erik Forsblom +7 more
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