Clinical analysis of cancer patients with bacteremia for the past ten years (1982-1991).
A trend in bacteremia associated with malignancies was studied in 159 cancer patients (pts) over the past ten years (1982-1991) in our university hospital. The proportion of female, aged persons and patients from the Int Med Dept had a tendency to increase in the later 5 years compared to the former 5 years. There was no significant change in proportion among G (+), G (-) and fungus groups. However, St. aureus has a tendency to increase among G (+) bacteria and Ps. aeruginosa among G (-) bacteria. The clinical features of the cancer patients with bacteremia were different depending on the types of organisms or kinds of underlying malignancies.
Mizushima
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Y
First Department of Internal Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Hirata
H
H
Kawasaki
A
A
Oosaki
R
R
Ohta
T
T
Hoshino
K
K
Kashii
T
T
Takashima
A
A
Kobayashi
M
M
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D011379:Prognosis