Example sentences for: bacteremia

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  • One patient had 2 episodes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia and another patient had 2 episodes of S typhi bacteremia.

  • Possible catheter-related bacteremia (P-CRB): Bacteremia (isolation of the same organism with identical antibiograms from the blood drawn from peripheral veins and CVC), clinical manifestations of sepsis, defervescence after removal of implicated catheter, but no laboratory confirmation of CVC colonization.

  • Bacteremia is more common in hospitalized HIV-positive patients than in HIV-negative patients [ 9 ] . The incidence of nonmycobacterial bacteremias in hospitalized patients with HIV ranges from 2% to 9% [ 10 11 12 ] . Most blood stream infections in patients with HIV are community acquired [ 13 14 ] . In developed countries, the incidence rate of HIV-associated bacteremia has declined after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) [ 14 15 ] . In the present study, the incidence of blood stream infection among hospitalized patients with HIV was 7%, and most of these infections were community acquired.

  • The lack of association between bacteremia and low CD4 +lymphocyte count or leukopenia in the present study may reflect the earlier stage of HIV infection in our patient population.

  • Indeed, the peak of pneumococcal meningitis incidence in the 3–6-mo age group (see Figure 2) suggests that the mechanism of protection against meningitis may differ from those against pneumonia and bacteremia.


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