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Limited impact of bacterial virulence on early mortality risk factors in Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia observed in a Galleria mellonella model : Limited impact of bacterial virulence on early mortality risk factors in <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> bacteremia observed in a <i>Galleria mellonella</i> model
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- Issue Date
- 2024-06
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Citation
- Scientific Reports, Vol.14 No.1, p. 14960
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- Acinetobacter baumannii (AB) has emerged as a major pathogen in vulnerable and severely ill patients. It remains unclear whether early mortality (EM) due to AB bacteremia is because of worse clinical characteristics of the infected patients or the virulence of the pathogen. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of AB virulence on EM due to bacteremia. This retrospective study included 138 patients with AB bacteremia (age: >= 18 years) who were admitted to a tertiary care teaching hospital in South Korea between 2015 and 2019. EM was defined as death occurring within 7 days of bacteremia onset. The AB clinical isolates obtained from the patients' blood cultures were injected into 15 Galleria mellonella larvae each, which were incubated for 5 days. Clinical isolates were classified into high- and low-virulence groups based on the number of dead larvae. Patients' clinical data were combined and subjected to multivariate Cox regression analyses to identify the risk factors for EM. In total, 48/138 (34.8%) patients died within 7 days of bacteremia onset. The Pitt bacteremia score was the only risk factor associated with EM. In conclusion, AB virulence had no independent effect on EM in patients with AB bacteremia.
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- 2045-2322
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