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GRAM‐NEGATIVE SYSTEMIC BACTERAEMIA IN ALIMENTARY TRACT SURGERY
Author(s) -
Burton R. C.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb88074.x
Subject(s) - alimentary tract , medicine , systemic inflammatory response syndrome , bacteremia , sepsis , intensive care medicine , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , antibiotics
Twenty‐nine patients submitted to operations on the gastro‐intestinal and biliary tracts were investigated with systemic venous blood cultures on the day of operation. Pathogenic bacteria, 80% of which were Gram‐negative enteric bacilli, were isolated from the systemic blood of nine patients. This bacteræmia was not associated with clinical evidence of sepsis, but may have contributed to the pathogenesis of wound infections complicating the operations on the large intestine.