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rdf:type | |
lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
3
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pubmed:dateCreated |
2001-7-4
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pubmed:abstractText |
Blood samples, which were obtained from patients who lived in a rural area with approximately 500 acute-care hospital beds, were cultured from 1990 through 1997. We retrospectively reviewed the blood cultures that yielded Clostridium species (74 [0.12%] of 63,296 cultures). These were obtained from 46 different hospitalized patients (incidents per hospital, 0.03%). The source of the Clostridium species was a gastrointestinal site in 24 patients (52.2%). The most frequently identified Clostridium species was Clostridium perfringens (in 10 [21.7%] of patients), followed by Clostridium septicum (in 9 [19.6%]). Thirty-one patients (67.4%) were aged > or =65 years, 13 patients (28.3%) had diabetes mellitus, and underlying malignancy was present in 22 patients (47.8%). The mortality rate of patients whose condition had been managed surgically was 33%; for those patients whose conditions required medical management, the mortality rate was 58%. Clostridium bacteremia in these patients usually had a gastrointestinal source, it often occurred in patients with serious underlying medical conditions, and it rarely was the result of traumatic farm accidents.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Aug
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pubmed:issn |
1058-4838
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:day |
1
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pubmed:volume |
33
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
349-53
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2005-11-16
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pubmed:meshHeading | |
pubmed:year |
2001
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Clinical features of clostridial bacteremia: a review from a rural area.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Surgery, Section of Infectious Disease, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, 1836 South Ave., La Crosse, WI 54601, USA.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Review
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