Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of Acinetobacter nosocomialis bacteraemia in patients with solid tumours.
The clinical characteristics and risk factors for 28-day mortality in 120 patients with solid tumours with Acinetobacter nosocomialis bacteraemia were retrospectively analysed. Eighty-one patients (67.5%) had advanced-stage cancer. Most of the bacteraemia (37.5%) did not have an identified source. The bacteraemia episodes developed at a median of 15 days after hospitalization, and most during a non-neutropenic period (97.5%). Although only half of the patients received appropriate antimicrobial therapy, the mortality was relatively low (11.7%). High Pitt bacteraemia score and receipt of chemotherapy within the month before bacteraemia onset were independently associated with 28-day mortality.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Hau-Shin
HS
Wu
Shu-Chen
SC
Kuo
Yi-Tzu
YT
Lee
Ya-Sung
YS
Yang
Shu-Shing
SS
Cheng
Te-Li
TL
Chen
Chang-Phone
CP
Fung
D000150:Acinetobacter / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000151:Acinetobacter Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D000368:Aged; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology