Bacteremia in a Long Term Care Facility

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dc.contributor.authorNicolle, Le
dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, M
dc.contributor.authorHoban, D
dc.contributor.authorMurray, D
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-09T17:46:15Z
dc.date.available2016-06-09T17:46:15Z
dc.date.issued1994-1-1
dc.date.updated2016-06-07T07:04:18Z
dc.description.abstractEpisodes of bacteremia identified in a long term care facility over a seven and a half-year period from July 1984 to December 1991 were reviewed. Twenty-nine episodes of bacteremia were identified, a rate of 4.35/100,000 patient-days. The most common infecting organisms were Escherichia coli (11 episodes), Streptococcus pneumoniae (four), Proteus mirabilis (three), Staphylococcus aureus (three) and Bacteroides species (two). The source of bacteremia was urinary in 45% of patients, gastrointestinal in 17%, pneumonia in 14%, skin in 14% and unknown in 10%. The overall case fatality rate was 24%, but for the final six years of the review the case fatality rate was only 9.5%. These observations report a rate of bacteremia 10-fold lower than reported from other North American long term care facilities and, potentially, a lower case fatality rate. The primary site of bacteremia, however, in long term care facilities is the urinary tract.
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dc.identifier.citationLe Nicolle, M McIntyre, D Hoban, and D Murray, “Bacteremia in a Long Term Care Facility,” Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 130-132, 1994. doi:10.1155/1994/647804
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1994/647804
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/31479
dc.language.rfc3066en
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 1994 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.titleBacteremia in a Long Term Care Facility
dc.typeJournal Article
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