1.
Clin Microbiol Infect
; 10(7): 667-70, 2004 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15214884
ABSTRACT
Data on BacT/Alert blood cultures in a Greek hospital from 1995 to 2002 were analysed retrospectively. There was a gradual increase in the number of blood cultures (4981 in 1995 to 9054 in 2002), the true positive rate (14.4% to 16.5%) and the number of bloodstream infections/1000 hospital admissions (22.1 to 30.7). The five most common pathogens were Eschericia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-negative staphylococci, enterococci and Klebsiella spp. The relative rates of Gram-negative and Gram-positive isolates inverted during the study period because of an increasing frequency of coagulase-negative staphylococci and enterococci.
Subject(s)
Bacteremia/microbiology , Blood/microbiology , Enterobacteriaceae Infections/microbiology , Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections/microbiology , Hospitals , Bacteremia/epidemiology , Bacteriological Techniques , Blood Specimen Collection/statistics & numerical data , Culture Media , Enterobacteriaceae Infections/epidemiology , Escherichia coli/isolation & purification , Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections/epidemiology , Gram-Positive Cocci/isolation & purification , Greece/epidemiology , Humans , Klebsiella/isolation & purification
2.
J Chemother
; 1(4 Suppl): 835-8, 1989 Jul.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16312661