Among the patients affected by Nocardia, 71.4% had a good prognosis, indicating that nocardial bacteremia is a curable disease; however, six patients succumbed to the disease. One of the possible causes of death was old age with serious underlying diseases and a prolonged history of oral glucoc...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Wikipedia bac·te·re·mi·a (băk′tə-rē′mē-ə) n. The presence of bacteria in the blood. bac′te·re′mic(-mĭk)adj. bac′te·re′mi·cal·lyadv. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth ...
In this chapter, specific clinical infections and their diagnostic criteria are discussed.Bacteremiais associated with increased morbidity and mortality and ranks among the top seven causes of death in Europe and North America[1]. Community-acquired pneumonia is the most common infectious cause of dea...
Infectious disease is the second most common cause of death in patients receiving hemodialysis (HD). When presenting to the emergency department (ED) with fever, it remains a diagnostic challenge to distinguish patients with potentially life-threatening bacterial infections from those with less ...
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Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis that included 132 582 patients from 89 studies, female sex was associated with increased mortality. Female patients with S aureus bacteremia had 18% increased odds of death compared with male patients. Meaning These results suggest that female ...
death was indirectly caused by the bacteremia if the patient died of multifactorial causes, including further organ compromise by the current septic episode; and death was considered unrelated to the bacteremia if the patient died following the bacteremia of causes independent of the infectious proces...
resolve, particularly those caused byStreptococcus pneumoniaeandSalmonella, and serious sequelae are increasingly uncommon. However, serious bacterial infections occur, including pneumonia, septic arthritis, brain abscesses, osteomyelitis, cellulitis, meningitis, and sepsis, possibly resulting in death. ...
In the 1960s, almost all patients who developed gram-negative bacteremia during granulocytopenia died; death occurred before blood culture results were available in about 50% of cases; many patients received antibiotics that were, at best, suboptimal and frequently inactive against the invading pathog...
Background: Bloodstream infectionis one of thetop ten causes ofdeath in persons aged60 years in US. Staphylococcus aureus was the second most common hospital acquired pathogen among older adults with bacteremia. Despite advances in medical care, deaths caused by infectious diseases have increased in...