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Temporal changes in neutropenic blood culture isolates and disease associations: a single centre series of 1139 episodes
Author(s) -
Lucas Nathanael,
Humble Michael,
Sim Dalice,
Balm Michelle,
Carter John,
Weinkove Robert
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.13509
Subject(s) - medicine , neutropenia , blood culture , pseudomonas aeruginosa , antibiotics , coagulase , disease , myeloid , staphylococcus , staphylococcus aureus , microbiology and biotechnology , chemotherapy , bacteria , genetics , biology
Neutropenic infections are life‐threatening and require empiric antibiotic treatment. We examined 1139 blood culture isolates from our institution over a 36‐year period from neutropenic patients to examine temporal trends and disease associations. Positive associations were found between viridans streptococci and acute myeloid leukaemia, coagulase negative staphylococci and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and indolent B‐cell malignancies.