Increasing incidence of Gram-positive sepsis in cancer patients.
A review of the agents causing septicemia in cancer patients during a nine-year period (1968--76) revealed that Gram-positive organisms (especially S aureus) have become the most frequent isolates during the last two years. This unanticipated increase (P less than 0.001) in the number of Gram-positive isolates could not be related to horizontal transmission nor to changes in patient characteristics or therapy.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007938:Leukemia / Q000150:complications; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus