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3571476

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
We retrospectively examined episodes of Bacillus bacteremia at a hospital with a large proportion of immunosuppressed patients. Seventeen episodes in 9.5 years met our case definition: two of two bottles of one blood culture or one of two bottles of two or more separately obtained blood cultures drawn on the same date. During the same period, there were 59 additional episodes in which a single blood culture had only one of two bottles positive for Bacillus species. Only 2 of 59 such episodes resulted in recurrent bacteremia (3%), as compared with 5 of 17 episodes meeting our case definition (29%) (P = 0.004). In four of five episodes complicated by recurrent bacteremia and in which appropriate antibiotics were used, a Hickman-Broviac catheter was in place and was not removed. We suggest that our case definition permits the differentiation of infection from contamination based on outcome and that patients with Bacillus bacteremia have chronic venous catheters removed as well as receive antibiotic treatment.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0095-1137
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
672-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical features and therapeutic interventions in 17 cases of Bacillus bacteremia in an immunosuppressed patient population.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article