The effect of colistin resistance and other predictors on fatality among patients with bloodstream infections due to Klebsiella pneumoniae in an OXA-48 dominant region | Zendy

Şirin Menekşe | Zendy; Yasemin Çağ | Zendy; Mehmet Emirhan Işık | Zendy; Suzan Şahin | Zendy; Demet Hacıseyitoğlu | Zendy; Füsun Can | Zendy; Önder Ergönül | Zendy

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The effect of colistin resistance and other predictors on fatality among patients with bloodstream infections due to Klebsiella pneumoniae in an OXA-48 dominant region

Author(s) -

Şirin Menekşe,

Yasemin Çağ,

Mehmet Emirhan Işık,

Suzan Şahin,

Demet Hacıseyitoğlu,

Füsun Can,

Önder Ergönül

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2019.06.008

Subject(s) - colistin , tigecycline , medicine , amikacin , klebsiella pneumoniae , odds ratio , carbapenem , case fatality rate , blood culture , drug resistance , mortality rate , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , epidemiology , biology , biochemistry , escherichia coli , gene

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of colistin resistance and other predictors on fatality among patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections (Kp-BSI) and to describe the effect of amikacin and tigecycline on the outcome in an OXA-48 dominant country.

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