Blood culture results in elderly febrile patients
| Autor: | Hiroshi Tsuda, Hiroshi Isonuma, Miyoji Aiba, Naoharu Sakamoto, Kwang Seok Yang, Takako Sakurai, Miki Takahashi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Fever Urinary system medicine.medical_treatment Bacteremia Urine Gastroenterology Internal medicine medicine Humans Blood culture Vein Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Venous blood medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Catheter-Related Infections Urinary Tract Infections Arterial blood Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business Central venous catheter |
| Zdroj: | Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics. 52:367-373 |
| ISSN: | 0300-9173 |
| Popis: | AIM We retrospectively evaluated blood culture results in elderly patients (≥65 years) with a fever due to infection. METHODS We examined the bacteria isolated from blood cultures and compared them to bacteria detected in infected lesions that caused bacteremia. We compared the types of bacteria isolated in the two groups (the community-acquired group and the hospital-acquired group). RESULTS Blood cultures were obtained from 638 patients. Bacteria were detected in 182 patients (28.5%), including 66 (36.3%) patients in the community-acquired group and 116 (63.7%) patients in the hospital-acquired group. There were 259 positive samples (25.1%). In arterial blood specimens, 153 (30.9%) samples were positive, while in venous blood specimens, there were 106 (19.8%) positive samples (P |
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