Bacteraemia in high-risk patients.
Indian J Med Sci
;
2002 Aug; 56(8): 391-6
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-68613
ABSTRACT
In this study, we noticed a high incidence of bacteraemia in high-risk patients especially due to nonfermenter gram negative bacilli (NFGNB) and coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS). Bacteraemia caused by some rare bacteria such as Moraxella spp., Aeromonas spp., Flavobacterium meningosepticum was also noted during the study. Antibiotic resistance pattern showed that many isolates were Multi Drug Resistant (MDR). This can be attributed to nosocomial-infection, which may occur due to more and more invasive procedures for diagnosis and therapy during long stay of patients in the hospital. Also, the MDR strains and the wide spread oxacillin resistant CoNS (OR-CoNS) and slowly emerging vancomycin resistant CoNS (VR-CoNS) associated with nosocomial infections pose a great threat to the clinicians. We recommend the usage of commonly used antibiotics along with cephalosporins for the patients admitted to these high-risk units, before the antibiotic susceptibility test findings.
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Humans
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Prevalence
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Bacteremia
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Gram-Positive Cocci
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Drug Resistance, Bacterial
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Gram-Negative Bacteria
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Hospital Departments
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India
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Prevalence study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian J Med Sci
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
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