BACKGROUND Metastatic infections such as infective endocarditis and psoas abscess are serious complications of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia because failure to identify these infections may result in bacteremia relapse or poor prognosis. In the present study, we determined the predictive factors for metastatic infection due to methicillin-sensitive S. aureus bacteremia. METHODS A retrospec...

Background: Since December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused dead of 1 million people, from these critically ill patients have an increased risk bacteremia. Material and Methods: This observational, retrospective, single-center study included 129 with a We studied clinical characteristics, comorbidities, hospital intensive care unit length stay, days on invasive mechanical ve...

BACKGROUND Sphingomonas paucimobilis is rarely isolated from clinical specimens and it is associated with a great variety of infections. The aim of this study is to investigate the microbiological and clinical features of S paucimobilis infection in southern Taiwan. METHODS S paucimobilis isolates from the microbiology laboratory of Chi-Mei Medical Center and their relevant clinical data from...

BACKGROUND Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is the third most frequent non-fermentative Gram-negative bacilli in nosocomial infections, and usually causes severe infections such as primary bacteremia and pneumonia. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics, microbiological findings and final outcomes of the patients with primary bacteremia and noso...

Forty-three patients with Klebsiella oxytoca bacteremia were seen between July 1980 and June 1996 at National Taiwan University Hospital (Taipei, Taiwan). We retrospectively analyzed the clinical features of these patients and the antimicrobial susceptibilities of the 43 isolates recovered from them. Twenty-seven patients (63%) had community-acquired bacteremia, and 16 patients (37%) had polymi...

Kluyvera cryocrescens infection has been considered rare; clinical features of K. cryocrescens bacteremia remain unclear because few reports have been published. We report a case of K. cryocrescens bacteremia in an adult male patient and review the literature. Our case was one with nosocomial bacteremia in a patient with interstitial lung disease. The primary infection site was undetermined, al...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Providencia species frequently colonize urinary catheters and cause urinary tract infections (UTIs); however, bacteremia is uncommon and not well understood. We investigated the clinical features of Providencia bacteremia and the antibiotic susceptibility of Providencia species. METHODS We identified cases of Providencia bacteremia from May 2001 to April 2013 at a tertiary car...

A retrospective observational study in Taiwan, 1998-2004, identified 92 patients with group G streptococcal bacteremia; 86 had Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis. The most common diagnosis was cellulitis (48 cases), followed by primary bacteremia (34 cases). Infection recurred in 9 patients. Mortality rate was low (3.3%); resistance to quinupristin-dalfopristin was high.

we report a case of a. naeslundii bacteremia in an 11 year-old boy with persistent fever for two weeks prior hospital admission. he was finally diagnosed with malignant t cell lymphoma. isolation of this bacterium from the blood culture of our patient can serve as an important warning indicating that incuriosity about fastidious and not easily grown bacteria isolated from clinical samples may l...

To estimate the incremental cost of nosocomial bacteremia according to the causative focus and classified by the antibiotic sensitivity of the microorganism.Patients admitted to Hospital del Mar in Barcelona from 2005 to 2012 were included. We analyzed the total hospital costs of patients with nosocomial bacteremia caused by microorganisms with a high prevalence and, often, with multidrug-resis...