A 5-year epidemiological study of nosocomial bloodstream infections in a neurosurgery department.
The characteristics of nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSIs) in a neurosurgical department were studied over a 5-year period. The rate of nosocomial BSI was 3.0%. Gram-negative bacteria were the most commonly isolated pathogens (65.9% of isolates). For all the pathogens isolated, the rate of resistance to commonly used antimicrobial agents was high. Of the 101 patients with nosocomial BSI, 50 (49.5%) died during their stay at the Department of Neurosurgery. At the same time, overall mortality rate among neurosurgical inpatients without nosocomial BSI was 5.4% (ie, 175 of 3,216 patients died).
Tsitsopoulos
Parmenion P
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Second Department of Neurosurgery, the Infectious Diseases Unit, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Iosifidis
Elias
E
Antachopoulos
Charalampos
C
Tsivitanidou
Maria
M
Anagnostopoulos
Ioannis
I
Roilides
Emmanuel
E
Tsitsopoulos
Philippos D
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D016469:Fungemia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D006095:Gram-Positive Cocci / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009493:Neurosurgery; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D055815:Young Adult