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Many factors need to be considered when selecting empiric antimicrobial treatment for infections; foremost are the principal pathogens causing the diagnosed infection and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. These susceptibifities are location specific. This study analyses blood cultures of a 5-year period (1990-94) at a 550 bed community hospital and stratifies antimicrobial susceptibilities by source of patients. Data included: date of culture, patient location, number of positive bottles with the same organism over a period of 2 weeks and results of susceptibility testing. Positive cultures from patients in the Emergency Department were deemed to reflect communityacquired strains; positive cultures from patients in the Intensive Care Unit were considered nosocomial organisms. During the study period 52 055 blood cultures were drawn; 5652 (11%) from 2742 patients grew at least one organism, excluding skin contaminants. Organisms cultured most frequently were: Enterobacteriaceae: 1162 patients (42%); Staphylococcus aureus: 442 (16%); Enterococcus: 429 (16%); and Pseudomonas: 196 (7%). Antimicrobial susceptibility percentages of Enterobacteriaceae from Emergency Room patien

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Author

A.M. Yinnon; Y. Schlesinger; D. Gabbay; B. Rudensky

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0163-4453)

Published

1997

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)