Objectives: Septic arthritis is an orthopedic emergency, delayed treatment results in rapid, and irreversible joint destruction with significant morbidity mortality. The correlation between the infectious organism(s) isolated from blood synovial fluid remains unclear. Native septic (NJSA) often secondary to bacteremia other contiguous sources of infection. This investigation examined organisms ...

Pseudomonas oryzihabitans is a gram-negative bacillus usually isolated from cases of bacteremia, CNS infections, catheter associated infections or any device related sinusitis, wound skin especially in immunocompromised patients hospital settings. Only few bacteremia have been reported due to this rare pathogen. This first case report North India terminally ill patient suffering chronic liver d...

IN A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF NATURAL ANTIPNEUMOCOCCAL IMMUNE SUBSTANCES TO THE INCIDENCE AND COURSE OF BACTEREMIA IN DOGS WITH EXPERIMENTAL PNEUMOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA THE FOLLOWING FINDINGS CAME TO LIGHT: (1) In non-bacteremic animals, natural immune substances, as measured by the pneumococcidal-promoting action of the serum, continue to be present in relatively undiminished concentration thro...

Some important virulence factors have been elucidated in Klebsiella pneumoniae infections. We investigated the relationship between virulence factors and multilocus sequence types (STs) and assessed the risk factors for bacteremia in patients with pneumonia due to K. pneumoniae. From April 2004 through April 2012, a total of 120 K. pneumoniae isolates from patients with pneumonia (23 with bacte...

BACKGROUND Controversy exists about the impact of prophylactic antibiotics on bacteremia after invasive dental procedures. The purpose of this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study was to determine the impact of amoxicillin prophylaxis on the incidence, nature, and duration of bacteremia from nasotracheal intubation and dental procedures in children. METHODS AND RESULTS Children ...

BACKGROUND Infection is a serious complication of cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) placement and requires device removal for attempted cure. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied the rate, risk factors, and outcomes of CIED infection in 74 consecutive patients with bacteremia caused by Gram-positive cocci (GPC) other than Staphylococcus aureus between 2001 and 2007. CIED infection...

Background: Despite availability of potent antimicrobial agents, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P aeruginosa) continues to be a serious cause of bacteremia, with high rates of morbidity and mortality; but no available data to elucidate if non-aeruginosa strains of Pseudomonas constitute a similar problem or just bystanders. The aim of this study was to identify the relative frequency of Pseudomonas ba...

BACKGROUND Despite pneumococcal antibiotic resistance rates in excess of 25%, macrolides remain first-line agents for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. METHODS Prospective, population-based surveillance was conducted to identify cases of pneumococcal bacteremia in Toronto and Peel, Canada, between 2000 and 2004. "Macrolide failures" were defined as cases of bacteremia occurring d...

CONTEXT Clinicians order blood cultures liberally among patients in whom bacteremia is suspected, though a small proportion of blood cultures yield true-positive results. Ordering blood cultures inappropriately may be both wasteful and harmful. OBJECTIVE To review the accuracy of easily obtained clinical and laboratory findings to inform the decision to obtain blood cultures in suspected bact...