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Etiology of bacteremia.

Applied microbiology ·Vol. 15 ·No. 4 ·1967-07-00 ·Pages 808-14

Dalton HP, Allison MJ

Abstract

Blood-culture results for a 15-year period from a large southern hospital were tabulated and analyzed for alterations in the bacterial species associated with bacteremia. From 15,543 cultures, 2,410 positive cultures (15.6%) were obtained. These results were grouped into 5-year periods, and an alteration in the incidence of the agents was demonstrated. In the past 5 years, gram-negative bacilli have replaced gram-positive cocci as the most common agents of bacteremia, and several species not formerly associated with septicemia were found to be involved in a large number of cases. The importance of the clinical laboratory monitoring blood culture results was demonstrated as was the need for constant collaboration between the clinician and microbiologist.

MeSH Terms
Bacillus/isolation & purification Corynebacterium/isolation & purification Endocarditis, Bacterial/etiology Escherichia coli Infections Humans Neisseria/isolation & purification Pneumococcal Infections Proteus Infections Pseudomonas Infections Salmonella Infections Sepsis/etiology Staphylococcal Infections Streptococcal Infections
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Dalton H P
Allison M J
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Article Info
Journal
Applied microbiology
Abbr.
Appl Microbiol
ISSN
0003-6919
DOI
10.1128/am.15.4.808-814.1967
Published
1967-07-00
Pages
808-14
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7605802
PMCID
PMC547070
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/am.15.4.808-814.1967 PMC Full Text
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