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Comparison of antimicrobial resistances and clinical features in community-onset Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia [PDF]

The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021
Background/Aims The aim of this study was to compare antimicrobial resistance, clinical features, and outcomes of community-onset Escherichia coli (COEC) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (COKP) bacteremia.
Hwa Seok Sung, Je Won Lee, Sohyun Bae, Ki Tae Kwon   +3 more
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Time to positivity of Corynebacterium in blood culture: Characteristics and diagnostic performance

PLoS ONE, 2022
The presence of Corynebacterium in blood samples can indicate true bacteremia or contamination, thus complicating the diagnosis of true bacteremia.
Naoki Watanabe, Yoshihito Otsuka, Tomohisa Watari, Naoto Hosokawa, Kazufumi Yamagata, Miyuki Fujioka   +5 more
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Evaluation of In-Hospital Management for Febrile Illness\ud in Northern Tanzania before and after 2010 World Health\ud Organization Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria [PDF]

, 2014
In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) published updated guidelines emphasizing and expanding recommendations for a parasitological confirmation of malaria before treating with antimalarials. This study aimed to assess differences in historic (2007–
Biggs, Holly M., Crump, John A., Maro, Venace P., Moon, Andrew M., Reddy, Elizabeth A., Rubach, Matthew P., Saganda, Wilbrod   +6 more
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Clinical effects of bacteremia in sepsis patients with community-acquired pneumonia

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background Data regarding the clinical effects of bacteremia on severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are limited. Thus, we investigated clinical characteristics and outcomes of severe CAP patients with bacteremia compared with those of subjects ...
Tae Wan Kim, Se-Uk Lee, Boram Park, Kyeongman Jeon, Sunghoon Park, Gee Young Suh, Dong Kyu Oh, Soo Yeon Lee, Mi Hyeon Park, Haein Lee, Chae-man Lim, Ryoung-Eun Ko, Korean Sepsis Alliance (KSA) investigators   +12 more
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Risk factors and clinical impact of bacteremia due to carbapenem-nonsusceptible Enterobacteriaceae: A multicenter study in southern Taiwan

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2021
Background: The emergence of carbapenem-non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae (CnSE) infections is a public health threat. This study investigated the risk factors and clinical impact of bacteremia due to CnSE.
Tsao-Chin Lin, Yuan-Pin Hung, Wei-Tang Lin, Wei Dai, Yeou-Lih Huang, Wen-Chien Ko   +5 more
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Factors Associated with Non-typhoidal Salmonella Bacteremia versus Typhoidal Salmonella Bacteremia in Patients Presenting for Care in an Urban Diarrheal Disease Hospital in Bangladesh. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
BACKGROUND:Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi bacteremia are the causes of significant morbidity and mortality worldwide.
K M Shahunja, Daniel T Leung, Tahmeed Ahmed, Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Dilruba Ahmed, Firdausi Qadri, Edward T Ryan, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti   +7 more
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Gordonia Bacteremia [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2013
ABSTRACT Gordonia species are ubiquitous aerobic actinomycetes that rarely cause infection in humans. We report the second known case of Gordonia otitidis catheter-related bacteremia in an immunocompromised patient and review four additional cases of Gordonia bacteremia ...
Poornima, Ramanan, Paul J, Deziel, Nancy L, Wengenack   +2 more
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Estimating the effect of healthcare-associated infections on excess length of hospital stay using inverse probability-weighted survival curves [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Studies estimating excess length of stay (LOS) attributable to nosocomial infections have failed to address time-varying confounding, likely leading to overestimation of their impact.
Batra, Rahul, Edgeworth, Jonathan, Pouwels, Koen B., Robotham, Julie V., Vansteelandt, Stijn, Wordsworth, Sarah   +5 more
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Comparisons of clinical features and outcomes between Elizabethkingia meningoseptica and other glucose non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli bacteremia in adult ICU patients

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2020
Background: Clinical information of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica (EM) bacteremia in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is limited and the impact on outcomes uncertain.
Wei-Chih Chen, Yen-Wen Chen, Hsin-Kuo Ko, Wen-Kuang Yu, Kuang-Yao Yang   +4 more
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Multicenter Study of the Risk Factors and Outcomes of Bloodstream Infections Caused by Carbapenem-Non-Susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii in Indonesia

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
The prevalence of bacteremia caused by carbapenem-non-susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii (CNSAB) continues to increase, and it is associated with a high mortality rate.
Dewi Anggraini, Dewi Santosaningsih, Pepy Dwi Endraswari, Novira Jasmin, Fajri Marindra Siregar, Usman Hadi, Kuntaman Kuntaman   +6 more
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