Incidence of bacteremia in adults without infection.
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To determine the incidence of bacteremia in healthy adults, blood cultures were obtained from 240 patients who had no demonstrable foci of infection. Five patients (2.1%) had positive blood cultures. Staphylococcus epidermidis was isolated from four patients and Alcaligenes faecalis from one. In each of these patients, the organism isolated probably represented contamination rather than bacteremia.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical microbiology
دوره 2 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976