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Clinical features and outcome of patients with community-acquired Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteraemia
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- Issue Date
- 2005-04-12
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Citation
- Clin Microbiol Infect. 2005 May;11(5):415-8.
- Keywords
- Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use ; Bacteremia/drug therapy/*epidemiology/mortality/pathology ; Community-Acquired Infections/drug therapy/*epidemiology/pathology ; Comorbidity ; Female ; Hematologic Neoplasms/pathology ; Hospitals ; Humans ; Korea/epidemiology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasms/pathology ; Neutropenia/epidemiology/pathology ; Pseudomonas Infections/drug therapy/*epidemiology/pathology ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Shock, Septic/pathology ; Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- 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.
- ISSN
- 1198-743X (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15819873
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/23387
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