BACKGROUND Arterial catheters are essential in critical care for haemodynamic and blood gas monitoring. The risk of infection remains ill defined. AIMS To delineate the incidence, pathogenesis and risk factors for arterial catheter-related bloodstream infection (BSI). METHODS Arterial catheters in two randomized trials in 1998-2000 were studied prospectively. One trial studied the effect of...

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) due to vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfae) remain a therapeutic challenge. This study aimed to evaluate mortality from BSIs due to VREfae in Central Taiwan.We retrospectively analyzed patients with significant VREfae BSIs in the Changhua Christian Hospital System between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2014.Of the 152 patients with Enterococcal BSI,...

The purpose of this study was to assess the factor structure and psychometric properties of the original and a revised modification of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) in 259 black and Latino males, aged thirty-five to sixty-seven, who had been released from a New York state prison or a New York City jail. The data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis, principal axis factoring and c...

C ardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) infections typically manifest in 2 distinct presentations—local generator pocket infection or systemic infection associated with bloodstream infection (BSI) with or without cardiovascular implantable electronic device–related infective endocarditis (CIED-IE) (1). While diagnosis of CIED pocket infection can generally be established based on p...

BACKGROUND Blood stream infections (BSI) with Pseudomonas aeruginosa lead to poor clinical outcomes. The worldwide emergence and spread of metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) producing, often multidrug-resistant organisms may further aggravate this problem. Our study aimed to investigate the effect of MBL-producing P. aeruginosa (MBL-PA) and various other resistance phenotypes on clinical outcomes. MET...

Paediatricians recognize that using the time-dependent community-acquired vs. hospital-acquired bloodstream infection (BSI) dichotomy to guide empirical treatment no longer distinguishes between causative pathogens due to the emergence of healthcare-associated BSIs. However, paediatric epidemiological evidence of the aetiology of BSIs in relation to hospital admission in England is lacking. For...

BACKGROUND Limited information is available on the financial impact of central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infection (BSI) in Argentina. To calculate the cost of BSIs in the intensive care department (ICU), a 5-year prospective nested case-control study was undertaken at 3 hospitals in Argentina. METHODS We studied 6 adult ICUs from 3 hospitals. In all, 142 patients with BSI and 14...

We studied the distribution of biogenic silica (BSi) and other potentially bio-available Si pools (NaCl-, NaBDand NaOH-extractable Si) in short (0–25 cm) sediment cores from estuarine, coastal and open-sea areas in the Gulf of Finland (northeastern Baltic Sea). The BSi pool (150–1200 μmol g–1 DM, dry matter) was the largest potentially bio-available Si pool. In a part of the studied area, the c...

(project number 08/13/47). The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the HTA programme, NIHR, NHS or the ABSTRACT Objectives: Interventions to reduce hospital-acquired bloodstream infection (BSI) have succeeded in reducing rates in US paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) but there is a lack of evidence for the impact of similar ...

Background Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (LA-MRSA CC398) is causing an increasing number of skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in Denmark and other European countries with industrial pig production. Yet, its impact on MRSA bloodstream infections (BSIs) has not been well studied. Methods We investigated the clinical epidemiology of all...