Bacteremia and candidemia in hematological malignancies: microbiological findings and antibiotic susceptibilities.
The microorganisms isolated in 1981-1985 from 171 cases of septicemia in patients with hematological malignancies were on the whole the same as those found in 1970-1972. The distribution between species was also quite similar for the two periods except within staphylococci, where the isolation rate of coagulase-negative staphylococci was higher in the latter period while that of Staphylococcus aureus was lower. Of 67 strains of Enterobacteriaceae tested for an aminoglycoside, 6% were found to be resistant, whereas 8% of 48 Enterobacteriaceae strains were found to be cefotaxime resistant. Methicillin- or aminoglycoside resistant S. aureus did not occur.
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Statens Seruminstitut, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bangsborg
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Hovgaard
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Skinhøj
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D002177:Candidiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000150:complications; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000150:complications; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*