Bacteremia

New findings from Soroka University in the area of bacteremia published

Published in Blood Weekly, October 29th, 2009

In this recent report, researchers in Beer Sheva, Israel conducted a study "To determine the attributable (direct) mortality and morbidity caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia. A matched retrospective, historical cohort design, using a stepwise procedure to stringently match the best control subjects to the best case subjects."

"A 1,000-bed tertiary-care university teaching hospital. Case subjects were defined as adult patients with carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae bacteremia during the period from October 2005 through October 2008. Control subjects were defined as patients who were very similar to case subjects except that they did not have...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2009-10-29)

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