title: Incidence of bacteremias and invasive mycoses in children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a single center experience.
abstract: We performed a retrospective single center study to define the epidemiology of bacteremias or invasive mycoses in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic SCT (HSCT) from matched related donors (MRD) or alternative donors (AD). During 119 213 days of follow-up, 156 infections were observed: 130 bacteremias (27 in MRD-HSCT and 103 in AD-HSCT recipients) and 26 invasive mycoses (8 in MRD-HSCT and 18 in AD-HSCT recipients). Overall, the risk of bacteremia was fivefold that of invasive mycosis (P<0.001). AD-HSCT recipients had a higher percentage of infections (89 vs 27%; P<0.001), a higher rate/100 days of immunosuppression (infection rate (IR): 0.21 vs 0.06; P<0.001) and a higher proportion of repeated infections (44 vs 9%; P=0.001). In AD-HSCT, the relative risk of bacteremia was 2.87 in the pre-engraftment period, 5.84 in the early post-engraftment period and 6.46 in the late post-engraftment period (P<0.001) compared to MRD-HSCT. Only after 1 year did the epidemiology become similar. The epidemiology of invasive mycoses did not differ significantly between the two types of transplant.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Hematology and Oncology, G Gaslini Children Hospital, Genoa, Italy. eliocastagnola@ospedale-gaslini.ge.it
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Castagnola
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bagnasco
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Faraci
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Caviglia
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Caruso
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cappelli
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moroni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morreale
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Timitilli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tripodi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lanino
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haupt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D009181:Mycoses / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000009:adverse effects