Methods: We conducted a retrospective review, from March to October 2020, of matched septic patients at five Hackensack Meridian Health hospitals who had bacteremia with Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae or Escherichia coli with and without COVID-19. We extracted patient demographics, ...
sepsis;Escherichia coli;Klebsiella pneumoniae 1. Introduction Sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by the body’s extreme response to infection, remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [1,2,3]. Data from 2017 estimated that approximately 49 million cases of sepsis and...
After applying criteria from the Nosocomial Infection Surveillance for Neonates (NEO-KISS), we included 52 and 55 cases of sepsis and pneumonia, respectively; 19.2% of sepsis patients and 34.5% of pneumonia patients had a prior colonization with MDRGN bacteria or SERMA. In these patients, sepsis...