Epidemiology, Management, and Risk-Adjusted Mortality of ICU-Acquired Enterococcal Bacteremia
Author(s) -
David S. Y. Ong,
Marc J. M. Bonten,
Khatera Safdari,
Cristian Spitoni,
Jos F. Frencken,
Esther Witteveen,
Janneke Horn,
Peter M. C. Klein Klouwenberg,
Olaf L. Cremer
Publication year - 2015
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/civ560
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , bacteremia , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , biology
Enterococcal bacteremia has been associated with high case fatality, but it remains unknown to what extent death is caused by these infections. We therefore quantified attributable mortality of intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired bacteremia caused by enterococci.
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