Bacteremia in patients with acute leukemia

ABSTRACT

47 febrile episodes in 64 patients with leukemia were studied to determine the incidence of bacteremia and the type of organisms that are responsible and their sensitivity to antibiotics, 15 positive blood culture were obtained. Gram negative bacilli were the most commonly isolated organisms followed by gram positive cocci. All the organisms with the exception of two were sensitive to gentamicin or cephalothin or both, the remaining two were resistant to antibiotics that were routinely tested which did not include new generation of antibiotics