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Clinical features and outcome of patients with community-acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteraemia
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- Issue Date
- 2005-05
- Publisher
- Elsevier Limited
- Citation
- Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Vol.11 No.5, pp.415-418
- Abstract
- Cases of community-acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteraemia (n = 39) that occurred at a tertiary-care hospital during a 5-year period were analysed retrospectively. The commonest underlying diseases were solid tumour (41%) and haematological malignancy (18%). Most (44%) of the patients were neutropenic, and 39% had septic shock at initial presentation. The 30-day attributable mortality rate was 39%. Two previously healthy patients were identified with fatal P. aeruginosa pneumonia with bacteraemia. P. aeruginosa bacteraemia is a fatal infection that should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting from the community with rapidly progressive sepsis.
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- 1198-743X
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