Enterococcal Bacteremia Is Associated With Increased Risk of Mortality in Recipients of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Author(s) -
Jan Vydra,
Ryan Shanley,
Isaac George,
Celalettin Üstün,
Abigail R. Smith,
Daniel J. Weisdorf,
JoAnne H. Young
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cis550
Subject(s) - medicine , bacteremia , hazard ratio , odds ratio , hematopoietic stem cell transplantation , vancomycin resistant enterococcus , incidence (geometry) , cumulative incidence , confidence interval , transplantation , enterococcus , daptomycin , risk factor , vancomycin , surgery , staphylococcus aureus , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , physics , optics , bacteria , biology
Enterococci are an important cause of healthcare-associated infections. We retrospectively analyzed risk factors and outcome of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and vancomycin-sensitive enterococci (VSE) infections.
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