title: Blood culture results during the period 1995-2002 in a Greek tertiary care hospital.
abstract: Data on BacT/Alert blood cultures in a Greek hospital from 1995 to 2002 were analysed retrospectively. There was a gradual increase in the number of blood cultures (4981 in 1995 to 9054 in 2002), the true positive rate (14.4% to 16.5%) and the number of bloodstream infections/1000 hospital admissions (22.1 to 30.7). The five most common pathogens were Eschericia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-negative staphylococci, enterococci and Klebsiella spp. The relative rates of Gram-negative and Gram-positive isolates inverted during the study period because of an increasing frequency of coagulase-negative staphylococci and enterococci.
authors.affiliation: Microbiology Department, Laikon General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Hadziyannis
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Stephanou
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dimarogona
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pantazatou
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fourkas
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Filiagouridis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Avlami
mesh_terms: D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology*; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003470:Culture Media; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006095:Gram-Positive Cocci / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007709:Klebsiella / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media